CO129-293 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [8-9] — Page 178

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is 36 and for a prisoner under 18 years 18 strokes. A birching of 12 strokes in the case of an adult and 6 strokes in the case of a juvenile is in my opinion too mild to be efficacious in many cases. Punishments B and C are covered by the existing rules 292 and 324.

Rule 290 this is the existing rule 280 with the omission of penal diet in alternate weeks in separate confinement this diet having been abolished in the new diet scales; the addition of forfeiture of remission of sentence as provided by existing rule 324, the increase of the number of strokes of the birch that may be awarded from 20-30 in the case of an adult and from 12-15 in the case of a juvenile, and the addition of the power to use the cat o' nine tails which is in use in the home prisons for prisoners over 18 years of age the maximum number of strokes which may be inflicted being 36 are new. It is very rarely that offences which have to be dealt with under the existing rule 280, on which this rule is based, occur, when they do occur they are generally committed by very refractory prisoners. To deal with some of these the only effective means is by a severer whipping than is possible under the existing rule. In my opinion therefore the power to award a whipping of

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will follow bey 7/ 175 is 36 and for a prisoner under 18 years 18 strokes. A birching of 12 strokes in the case of an adult and 6 strokes in the case of a juvenile is in my opinion too mild to be efficacious in many cases. Punishments B and C are covered by the existing rules 292 and 324. Rule 290 this is the existing rule 280 with the omission of penal diet in alternate weeks in separate confinement this diet having been abolished in the new diet scales; the addition of forfeiture of remission of sentence as provided by existing rule 324, the increase of the number of strokes of the birch that may be awarded from 20-30 in the case of an adult and from 12-15 in the case of a juvenile, and the addition of the power to use the cat o' nine tails which is in use in the home prisons for prisoners over 18 years of age the maximum number of strokes which may be inflicted being 36 are new. It is very rarely that offences which have to be dealt with under the existing rule 280, on which this rule is based, occur, when they do occur they are generally committed by very refractory prisoners. To deal with some of these the only effective means is by a severer whipping than is possible under the existing rule. In my opinion therefore the power to award a whipping of
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# will follow bey 7/ 175 is 36 and for a prisoner under 18 years 18 strokes. A birching of 12 strokes in the case of an adult and 6 strokes in the case of a juvenile is in my opinion too mild to be efficacious in many cases. Punishments B and C are covered by the existing rules 292 and 324. Rule 290 this is the existing rule 280 with the omis- sion of penal diet in alternate weeks in separate confinement this diet having been abolished in the new diet scales; the addition of forfeiture of remission of sentence as provided by existing rule 324, the increase of the number of strokes of the birch that may be awarded from 20-30 in the case of an adult and from 12-15 in the case of a juvenile, and the addi- tion of the power to use the cat o' nine tails which is in use in the home prisons for prisoners over 18 years of age the naximum number of strokes which may be inflicted being 36 are new. It is very rarely that offences which have to be dealt with under the existing rule 280, on which this rule is based, occur, when they do occur they are generally committed by very refrac- tory prisoners. To deal with some of these the only effective means is by a severer whipping than is possible under the exis- ting rule. In my opinion therefore the power to award a whipping of
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will follow bey

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is 36 and for a prisoner under 18 years 18 strokes. A birching

of 12 strokes in the case of an adult and 6 strokes in the case

of a juvenile is in my opinion too mild to be efficacious in many

cases. Punishments B and C are covered by the existing rules

292 and 324.

Rule 290 this is the existing rule 280 with the omis-

sion of penal diet in alternate weeks in separate confinement

this diet having been abolished in the new diet scales; the

addition of forfeiture of remission of sentence as provided

by existing rule 324, the increase of the number of strokes of

the birch that may be awarded from 20-30 in the case of an

adult and from 12-15 in the case of a juvenile, and the addi-

tion of the power to use the cat o' nine tails which is in use

in the home prisons for prisoners over 18 years of age the

naximum number of strokes which may be inflicted being 36 are

new. It is very rarely that offences which have to be dealt with

under the existing rule 280, on which this rule is based, occur,

when they do occur they are generally committed by very refrac-

tory prisoners. To deal with some of these the only effective

means is by a severer whipping than is possible under the exis-

ting rule. In my opinion therefore the power to award a whipping

of

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