The English Prison SystemRuggles-Brise, Evelyn, Sir
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The English Prison System
Ruggles-Brise, Evelyn, Sir
Prisons -- Great Britain
8. Where a society has undertaken the duty of assisting or supervising
persons discharged from a Borstal Institution, either absolutely or
on licence, there may be paid to the society out of money provided by
Parliament towards the expenses of the society incurred in connection
with the persons so discharged such sums on such conditions as the
Secretary of State, with the approval of the Treasury, may recommend.
[Sidenote: Removal from one part of the United Kingdom to another.]
9. Where a person has been sentenced to detention in a Borstal
Institution in one part of the United Kingdom, the Secretary of State,
the Secretary for Scotland or the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, as the
case may be, may, as authority under this Act for that part of the
United Kingdom, direct that person to be removed to and detained in a
Borstal Institution in another part of the United Kingdom, with the
consent of the authority under this Act for that other part.
EXTRACT FROM THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE ADMINISTRATION ACT, 1914 (4 & 5 Geo.
5, cap. 58).
_Committals to Borstal Institutions._
[Sidenote: Power to send youthful delinquents to Borstal institutions]
10.--(1) Where a person is summarily convicted of any offence for which
the court has power to impose a sentence of imprisonment for one month
or upwards without the option of a fine, and--
(_a_) it appears to the court that the offender is not less than
sixteen nor more than twenty-one years of age; and
(_b_) it is proved that the offender has previously been convicted of
any offence or, that having been previously discharged on probation,
he failed to observe a condition of his recognizance; and
(_c_) it appears to the court that by reason of the offender's
criminal habits or tendencies, or association with persons of bad
character, it is expedient that he should be subject to detention for
such term and under such instruction and discipline as appears most
conducive to his reformation and the repression of crime,
[Sidenote: 8 Edw. 7, c. 59.]
it shall be lawful for the court, in lieu of passing sentence, to
commit the offender to prison until the next quarter sessions, and the
court of quarter sessions shall inquire into the circumstances of the
case, and, if it appears to the court that the offender is of such age
as aforesaid and that for any such reason as aforesaid it is expedient
that the offender should be subject to such detention as aforesaid,
shall pass such sentence of detention in a Borstal institution as is
authorised by Part I. of the Prevention of Crime Act, 1908, as amended
by this Act; otherwise the court shall deal with the case in any way in
which the court of summary jurisdiction might have dealt with it.
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