Our Penal System.
The recent robbery - under - arms case in Christchurch affords another striking illustration of the —shall we not say ?—barbarity of our present penal system. From bad to worse is the record since reaching man’s estate of the principal in the case. Morally so sick that an outbreak of crime is the result, the man is shut up for a time, but afforded no special remedial treatment. Then, although
giving no evidence of improvement in health, he is let loose to infect and injure society, and further destroy his
own moral fibre. And this strange practice is repeated again and again, with the very natural result that the disease progresses, and the diseased one becomes a still greater source of
danger to society, and more hopeless of cure himselt. Why do we not,
as a rational community, insist on the
indeterminate sentence, and see to it that the treatment meted out shall be
curative, and not soul-destroying in its
nature ?
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White Ribbon, Volume 10, Issue 115, 15 February 1905, Page 7
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