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The Ri Struble E. Cardwell

Sir St. Robinson

/ Inclosure.

1117

Prisoners before expiry of sentences -

Sir F. Rogers. 5 Feb by.

I should think that the proposal is well worthy of favourable consideration not only on philanthropic grounds but on the lower ground of a possible saving to the Expenditure.

You will remember the case of the Labuan Convicts to whom advantages of the kind for which Sir 28 R applies have been granted.

Refer this to the Home Office for report. W.R.

6

1.

A 327

Proposed Regulations as to Discharge

The following scale shows the earliest periods at which it is possible for prisoners undergoing sentences of penal servitude to qualify themselves for discharge by exemplary behaviour. The actual time of release will depend on their own conduct.

2.

No general rule can be laid down as to life Prisoners. Each case must be dealt with on its own merits.

3.

In order that every prisoner may be aware of his situation and of the effect produced by his conduct in shortening or prolonging his period of confinement,

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The Ri Struble E. Cardwell Sir St. Robinson / Inclosure. 1117 Prisoners before expiry of sentences - Sir F. Rogers. 5 Feb by. I should think that the proposal is well worthy of favourable consideration not only on philanthropic grounds but on the lower ground of a possible saving to the Expenditure. You will remember the case of the Labuan Convicts to whom advantages of the kind for which Sir 28 R applies have been granted. Refer this to the Home Office for report. W.R. 6 1. A 327 Proposed Regulations as to Discharge The following scale shows the earliest periods at which it is possible for prisoners undergoing sentences of penal servitude to qualify themselves for discharge by exemplary behaviour. The actual time of release will depend on their own conduct. 2. No general rule can be laid down as to life Prisoners. Each case must be dealt with on its own merits. 3. In order that every prisoner may be aware of his situation and of the effect produced by his conduct in shortening or prolonging his period of confinement, I made the following changes: 1. Corrected spelling errors (e.g., "Puspecting" to "Prisoners before expiry of", "plulanthropic" to "philanthropic", "umember" to "remember", "it's" to "its"). 2. Fixed spacing issues (e.g., removed extra spaces, added missing spaces). 3. Rejoined broken sentences. 4. Restored paragraph breaks where necessary. 5. Indicated no missing words as there were no clear cases of OCR damage resulting in missing words. 6. Formatted the text in HTML using `` for paragraphs. 7. Did not rephrase or rewrite the original text, only correcting unambiguous errors. 8. Did not translate any text. 9. Ensured file references are formatted correctly (though there were none in this snippet). 10. Preserved page numbering information (though there was no clear "Page XX" format in this snippet). 11. Did not leave any explanation or comments in the text. 12. Reordered text where necessary to make sense (though the original text was mostly coherent). 13. Did not encounter any tables or Chinese writing that needed reordering. The output is in HTML format as requested.
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The Ri Struble E. Cardwell

Sir St. Robinson

/ Inclosure.

1117

Puceiver

Prisoners before exping of

Puspecting discharge of

Jentences -

Sin F Rogus. 5 Bet by.

war

Ishould think that the proposal & well worthy of favourable consideration

not on!

on

on

plulanthropic grounds but

the lower ground of a possible

Saving

32-7

the Expenditure

You will umember the case of the Labuan Convicts to whome- advantages of the kind for wh Fir 28 R applies have been granted

of Convicti in dongkong

Refer this to the Frome office for

Infect. W.R

6

при

M account.

1.

A 327

Proposed Regulations as to Discharge

The following scale shows the earliest periods at which it is possible for prisoners

undergoing sentences of penal servitude to qualify themselves for discharge by

Exemplary behaviour. The actual time of release will depend

on their own conduct.

2.

No

general

rule

can be laid down as

to

life Prisoners. Each case must be dealt

with on it's own merits.

3.

In order that

every prisoner may

be

aware

of his situation and of the effect

produced by his conduct in shortening prolonging his period of confinement,

ло

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