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detention.
It
16. It is essential that prisoners serving a sentence
of preventive detention should be subject to a different
prison regime from that which applies to the ordinary prisoner
As this kind of detention is intended to keep the detainee
out of the community, rather than to punish, he would be
given better accommodation and food, more recreational
facilities and less discipline than an ordinary prisoner.
will probably therefore be necessary for the Commissioner
of Prisons to prepare special accommodation for the reception
of prisoners of this class, though it is not anticipated that
there will ever be very many of them. It is considered that
the introduction of this kind of detention will be widely
welcomed by the public as showing that the Government is deter-
mined to take vigorous measures against the professional thug
and hardened criminal.
17. The Commissioner of Prisons and the Commissioner
of Police give their support to the Bill. However, the
Commissioner of Police is of the opinion that condition (e),
referred to in para. 13 (see new section 1091(d)) should be
deleted, to deal with those who have a bad criminal record
with several offences for which they have been sentenced to
imprisonment for under two years on each occasion. The
the
Chief Justice has urged that a sentence of preventive detention
should not be imposed on an offender under/age of 30, instead
of 25 as proposed in the Bill.
TRAINING CENTRES (AMENDMENT) BILL 1973.
18. At Annex D is the Training Centres (Amendment) Bill,
1973, the object of which is to lower the minimum period for
which a young offender, upon whom a sentence of detention in
a training centre is passed, must be kept in custody from