The English Prison SystemRuggles-Brise, Evelyn, Sir
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The English Prison System
Ruggles-Brise, Evelyn, Sir
Prisons -- Great Britain
Provided that such an order shall not be made until a draft thereof
has lain before each House of Parliament for not less than thirty days
during the session of Parliament, and if either House, before the
expiration of that period, presents an address to His Majesty against
the draft or any part thereof, no further proceedings shall be taken
thereon, but without prejudice to the making of any new draft order.
[Sidenote: Application to reformatory school offences.]
2. Where a youthful offender sentenced to detention in a reformatory
school is convicted under any Act before a court of summary
jurisdiction of the offence of committing a breach of the rules of the
school, or of inciting to such a breach, or of escaping from such a
school, and the court might under that Act sentence the offender to
imprisonment, the court may, in lieu of sentencing him to imprisonment,
sentence him to detention in a Borstal Institution for a term not
less than[3] one year nor more than three years, and in such case the
sentence shall supersede the sentence of detention in a reformatory
school.
[Sidenote: Power to transfer from prison to Borstal Institution.]
3. The Secretary of State may, if satisfied that a person undergoing
penal servitude or imprisoned in consequence of a sentence passed
either before or after the passing of this Act, being within the limits
of age within which persons may be detained in a Borstal Institution,
might with advantage be detained in a Borstal Institution, authorise
the Prison Commissioners to transfer him from prison to a Borstal
Institution, there to serve the whole or any part of the unexpired
residue of his sentence, and whilst detained in, or placed out on
licence from, such an institution, this Part of this Act shall apply to
him as if he had been originally sentenced to detention in a Borstal
Institution.
[Sidenote: Establishment of Borstal Institutions.]
4.--(1) For the purposes of this Part of this Act the Secretary of
State may establish Borstal Institutions, that is to say, places in
which young offenders whilst detained may be given such industrial
training and other instruction, and be subjected to such disciplinary
and moral influences as will conduce to their reformation and the
prevention of crime, and for that purpose may, with the approval of the
Treasury, authorise the Prison Commissioners either to acquire any land
or to erect or acquire any building or to appropriate the whole or any
part of any land or building vested in them or under their control, and
any expenses incurred under this section shall be paid out of moneys
provided by Parliament.
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