The English Prison SystemRuggles-Brise, Evelyn, Sir
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The English Prison System
Ruggles-Brise, Evelyn, Sir
Prisons -- Great Britain
(2) A court of summary jurisdiction or court of quarter sessions,
before dealing with any case under this section, shall consider any
report or representations which may be made to it by or on behalf
of the Prison Commissioners as to the suitability of the offender
for such detention as aforesaid, and a court of summary jurisdiction
shall, where necessary, adjourn the case for the purpose of giving an
opportunity for such a report or representations being made.
(3) Where a person is committed to prison under this section, his
treatment in prison shall, so far as practicable, be similar to that in
Borstal institutions, or he may, if the Secretary of State so directs,
be transferred to a Borstal institution.
[Sidenote: 8 Edw. 7 c. 15.]
(4) The Costs in Criminal Cases Act, 1908, shall apply in the case
of a person committed to prison by a court of summary jurisdiction
under this section as if that person were committed for trial for an
indictable offence.
(5) A person sentenced by a court of quarter sessions under this
section to detention in a Borstal institution may appeal against the
sentence to the Court of Criminal Appeal as if he had been convicted on
indictment, and the provisions of the Criminal Appeal Act, 1907, shall
apply accordingly.
[Sidenote: 7 Edw. 7 c. 23.]
(6) This section shall come into operation on the first day of
September nineteen hundred and fifteen.
[Sidenote: Amendment and application of Part I. of the Prevention of
Crime Act, 1908.]
11.--(1) The term for which a person or youthful offender may be
sentenced to detention in a Borstal institution under section one or
section two of the Prevention of Crime Act, 1908, shall not be less
than two years, and accordingly "two years" shall be substituted
for "one year" in subsection (1) of section one and in section two
respectively of that Act.
(2) The period for which a person sentenced to detention in a Borstal
institution is on the expiration of the term of his sentence to remain
under the supervision of the Prison Commissioners shall be one year,
and accordingly "one year" shall be substituted for "six months" in
subsection (1) of section six of the same Act.
(3) The maximum period for which a person so under the supervision of
the Prison Commissioners may on recall to a Borstal institution be
detained in such an institution shall be one year, and he may be so
detained notwithstanding that the period of supervision has expired,
and accordingly "one year" shall be substituted for "three months" in
subsection (2) of section six of that Act.
(4) The provisions of Part I. of the Prevention of Crime Act, 1908, as
so amended, shall apply to persons sentenced to detention in a Borstal
institution under this Act in like manner as they apply to persons
sentenced under that Part of that Act.
FOOTNOTES:
[Footnote 2: Altered to two years (vide Sec. 11 (1), C.J.A. Act, 1914).]
[Footnote 3: Altered to two years (vide Sec. 11 (1), C.J.A. Act, 1914).]
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