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21 Prob. J. 1 (1974)

handle is hein.journals/probj21 and id is 1 raw text is: probation journal PUBLISHED BY THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF PROBATION OFFICERS EDITED BY LESLIE HERBERT, MBE, MA Price 25p (free to members and associates) £1.00 per annum COMMENT Non-custodial Measures The country has fewer prisoners. This is the good news contained in the statistical tables recently published as a supplement to the Annual Re- port of the Prison Department. The average prison population decreased in 1972 by 3.5 per cent on the pre- vious year's figures-38,328 compared with 39,708. No-one quite knows the reason, but it may be due to parole and to greater use of non-custodial penalities. The measures provided in the Criminal Justice Act-primarily community service, day training, adult probation hostels and bail hostels-have not had time as yet to make an impact, but nevertheless there seems every indi- cation of a real change in government penal policy. This was high-lighted in a recent address by Sir Arthur Peterson to the ISTD. Sir Arthur, at one time Chair- man of the Prison Commissioners, is now Permanent Secretary at the Home Office. His speech in essence was a studied questioning of the effi- cacy of imprisonment as a means of dealing with criminals. But the use of imprisonment, he warned, can only fall at a pace at which adequate non- custodial measures can be developed. And it is here that the change in pol- icy is evidenced: whilst spending on Prison Department capital works is to be curbed, expenditure on Proba- tion and After-Care projects is to be spared the axe. Indeed, projections of capital expenditure show an in- crease of £3.7 million-a rise of 40 per cent. On all sides in the Service one still hears lamentations about the scarcity of financial resources. That the adverse winds have ceased to blow has not been noticed. In fact, the wind is favourable. What is re- quired is sufficient seamanship to keep the pumps working until we can berth the ship. Parole Board Chairman The news of the retirement of Lord Hunt, CBE, DSO, from the chairman- ship of the Parole Board at the end of February will be received in the Probation and After-Care Service with great regret. His integrity and gift for leadership have so developed the parole system that it has become in 'M9 years an integral part of our penal systeniawith great potential for the -future. Lord Hunt's personal qualities en- abled him to achieve .this despite his previous lack of specialised know- This is the first quarterly issue of a somewhat restyled and retitled Journal. We trust our readers will appreciate it, especially as it has been produced under the considerable difficulties of a three-day printing week and secretarial problems.

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