7 NOVEMBER 1952, page 14

Prison Officers Sut,-1 Agree With "prison Broke " That On

the whole the prison staffs in this country carry out their tasks efficiently or at least to the best of their ability. But the tasks they have to carry out are tedious,......

Letters To The Editor

Attlee and Bevan Snt,—The article by the Rev. Mervyn Stockwood in your last issue has no doubt a considerable interest for members of the Labour Party. For non-members it may......

Crime And Punishment

Sm,—It is to be hoped that, before authority yields to the demand for corporal punishment for violent crimes, there will be an analysis and report to the public as to the......

Sw,—in Agreeing With Janus That It Is Time Young Brutes

who cosh lonely women were made to feel physical pain, I should say the sooner after the event and in the form least calculated to flatter their vanity. I would draw' your......

Siu,—the Old Testament, Being The Keystone Of _both The New

Testa- ment and the Koran, and thus forming the basis of the moral law of the greater part of mankind, should be worth consulting with regard to the ethics of flogging that is......