PREVENTION OF CRIME
LONDON, December 8
The Prevention of Crimes Bill, -which wa^, read a third time, embodies preventive detention, the comts being empowered to t-entenoe prisoneis for that purpose to a minimum of five veils and a maximum of 10 years. The Home Secretary is empowered to shorten sentences at his» discretion . The bill has two parts: 1. To s«t up Borstal reformatories for young offenders under 21. The Borstal system teaches them trades in prison, encourages them by rewards, and looks after them on release. 2. To send habitual criminals, after serving penal ser\ itude for their latest offence, to preventive detention in a new institution near Parlthurst Prison, Isle of .Wight. Then* they will be kept until there is hope of rbeir cure or certainty of their incapacity for crime. But ihey will have more freedom to talk, get better food, chances of recreative occupation, be taught trades,- and be able to earn wages. December 10. The Prevention of Crime Bill was read a second time in the House of Lords.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2857, 16 December 1908, Page 19
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