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Vol. 2. No. 1. July 1926.
THE HOWARD JOURNAL.
ANNUAL MEETING.
[OW:ING TO LACK OF SPACE IT HAS NOT BEEN POSSIBLE TO GIVE A
VERBATIM REPORT OF THE MEETING, BUT THE FOLLOWING SUMMARY
WILL GIVE SOME IDEA OF THE INTEREST OF THE TOPICS TREATED BY
THE SIVERAL SPEAKERS.]
The fifth annual meeting of the Leakue was held at the Caxton
Hall on June 24th, 1925, with' Lord Henry Cavondish-Bentinck in
the Chair. In opening the proceedings the Chairman congratulated
the League on the way in which it had now got public opinion
behind it, and on the progress it had made in ill the objects of the
Society.
Quoting from the Annual Report, he noted among these: the
plea for a better probation system,, for an act to deal with mental
deficiency, for women police, for women magistrates, for prison
nurses, for women doctors in women's prisons, for prison education.
Then there were the protests against the silence rule, against months
of solitary confinement, against needless short sentences-all of which
had borne fruit.
He pointed out that although in many cases reform had only
reached the half way stage, yet the progress made was enough to
put us in good heart for the future, and to give us some confidence
that what the League thinks to-day Parliament will be thinking a
few years hence. The most striking instance of success was perhaps
the measure which includes a really proper probation system, for
which the League had been working for years. The Criminal
Justice Bill had every chance of becoming law before the session
ended.
PENAL REFORM IN PARLIAMENT.
Mr. Pethick Lawrence, who spoke on this subject, urged that
there was a special kind of work'for penal reform which the League
might do in addition to the impetus for reform which might come
from the Home Office, from the efforts of members of Parliament
and from the pressure of public opinion. The Home Office, lie said,
was primarily an administrative body and could hardly be expected
to make experiments, though it might respond to the iifluenceof some
outside body more free to experiment. The Member of Parliament
was bound to rely on some outside source of information, in order
to discuss the wide range of subjects on which he was expected to
speak. This particular Society was able to collect information, to
investigate, to suggest questions and generally to stand behind the
member who had his case to get together. Public opinion above all
was in need of impetus in relation to reform : it had no organised
method of expression and needed to be co-ordinated by some such](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.journals/hjcj2&div=1&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)
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