BORSTAL TRAINING.
[To THE EDITOR or THS " SPECTATOR.") Ste, —In your issue of April 8th you were so good as to print an abstract of correspondence between the Prison Commis- sioners and the State Children's Association as to the treat- ment of boys and girls in Borstal Institutions, together with an interesting editorial note thereon. We have ascertained from the Commissioners that the sentence in their letter-- " should an inmate be considered unfit for Borstal training the case is specially considered with a view to early discharge, either on licence or on remission of sentence "—does not apply, although it may appear to do so, to the mentally deficient cases, but to those unsuitable for Borstal treatment through some other cause, such as ill-health, physical infirmity. &c.—I
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