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Report of the Visiting Justices to the Bedfordshire Midsummer Sessions 1874. William Stuart junior, Harry Thornton, W B Higgins, Montagu Burgoyne, Turner A Macan, W Francis Higgins, John H Brooks, Francis John Thynne, Charles Miles. Includes the following:

June 1874

From: 1874 To: 1874

The Visiting Justices wish to direct attention to the length of the period for which Juvenile Offenders should be sentenced in detention in Reformatory Schools.: this should not be less than five years as the general rule of the managers of such institutions is not to receive offenders sentenced for shorter periods; a boy, who had been sentenced to a months imprisonment and four years detention was necessarily discharged a few weeks ago at the expiration of the term of imprisonment, because attempts which were made to get him received in some Reformatory failed through the term of detention being less than five years.

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Stuart, William,
Burgoyne, Montagu,
Higgins, W B,
Higgins, W. Francis,
Brooks, John H,
Macan, Turner Arthur,
Thynne, Francis John,
Thornton, Harry,
Miles, Charles

BEDFORD, gaol, general justices of the peace, magistrate, chaplains, prison governors, Quarter Sessions, imprisonment, Bedford Gaol, County Gaol, House of Correction, crime, punishment, employment, juvenile delinquency, CHILDREN, Bedfordshire Reformatory School for Boys