A New Model Borstal The plan for a new Borstal
institution, outlined by the Home Secretary in the House of Commons on Tuesday, marks a yet further stage in the progress which has been effected recently both in the attitude towards, and provisions for, juvenile delinquency. The new institution, in which it is hoped ultimately to accommodate 300 boys, will be established at the L.C.C. unemployment centre at Hollesley Bay, Suffolk, and will consist of four or five separate communities organised on the house system, and, as at Borstal, as much individual freedom as is possible will be ?ranted. The absence of prison conditions is rightly regarded as essential for the successful treatment of youthful offenders, .znd in this respect the Home Secretary's plea that penal terminology should also be _abandoned—that the inmates should be called " colonists," and the communities " colonies " —is also most desirable.
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