[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] SIR,—The paragraph in The
Spectator of January 6th, on the vexed question of flogging exhibits all the usual bias which appears inseparable from controversial matters.
Sir Reginald Coventry's views have at least the merit of experience and authority behind them, and your gibe about Worcester cuts little ice, for there is no reason why that city should know less about the effects of corporal punishment than, say, London or Wigan.
In spite of your remarks, it is common knowledge that garrotting was stamped out by corporal punishment, and it would be more to the point if you could produce a few cases where " any man had ever come back for a second sentence " of the cat.
The whole objection to corporal punishment appears to be only a symptom of that " softness " which is rapidly turning our prisons into " homes of rest " and our criminals into film ties.
Its to the High Court judges and bankers, possibly their opinions may not be so far apart, but then bankers are not Home Office officials !—Yours, &c , B. FAIR.
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