The English Prison SystemRuggles-Brise, Evelyn, Sir
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The English Prison System
Ruggles-Brise, Evelyn, Sir
Prisons -- Great Britain
(2) The Secretary of State may make regulations for the rule and
management of any Borstal Institution, and the constitution of a
visiting committee thereof, and for the classification, treatment,
and employment and control of persons sent to it in pursuance of this
Part of this Act, and for their temporary detention until arrangements
can be made for sending them to the institution, and, subject to any
adaptations, alterations, and exceptions made by such regulations, the
Prison Acts, 1865 to 1898 (including the penal provisions thereof), and
the rules thereunder, shall apply in the case of every such institution
as if it were a prison.
[Sidenote: Power to release on Licence]
5.--(1) Subject to regulations by the Secretary of State, the Prison
Commissioners may at any time after the expiration of six months,
or, in the case of a female, three months, from the commencement
of the term of detention, if satisfied that there is a reasonable
probability that the offender will abstain from crime and lead a
useful and industrious life, by licence permit him to be discharged
from the Borstal Institution on condition that he be placed under the
supervision or authority of any society or person named in the licence
who may be willing to take charge of the case.
(2) A licence under this section shall be in force until the term for
which the offender was sentenced to detention has expired, unless
sooner revoked or forfeited.
(3) Subject to regulations by the Secretary of State, a licence under
this section may be revoked at any time by the Prison Commissioners,
and where a licence has been revoked the person to whom the licence
related shall return to the Borstal Institution, and, if he fails to do
so, may be apprehended without warrant and taken to the institution.
(4) If a person absent from a Borstal Institution under such a licence
escapes from the supervision of the society or person in whose charge
he is placed, or commits any breach of the conditions contained in the
licence, he shall be considered thereby to have forfeited the licence.
(5) A court of summary jurisdiction for the place where the Borstal
Institution from which a person has been placed out on licence is
situate or where such a person is found may, on information on oath
that the licence has been forfeited under this section, issue a warrant
for his apprehension, and he shall, on apprehension, be brought before
a court of summary jurisdiction, which, if satisfied that the licence
has been forfeited, may order him to be remitted to the Borstal
Institution, and may commit him to any prison within the jurisdiction
of the court until he can conveniently be removed to the institution.
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