The Jail and Jail System of India
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given in full, with their reasons for assigning the punishment for life only :? " We have ready made to our hands a weapon of tremendous power. The horror with which the people regard transportation is a feeling born with them, and the questions whether it bo a wise or foolish feeling, whether it be a just deduction from true premises, or the result of ignorance and superstition, are nothing to the purpose. We have the extraordinary opportunity of punishing, with extreme effect towards deterring others, with sufficient effect in incapacitating the criminal for future crime, with the chance (obtainable in no other way) of rendering him a useful member of society ; and all this with the infliction of les3 real pain than that which is inflicted by other punishments not half so much dreaded. " We are of opinion, partly for reasons of a general character, and partly for reasons peculiarly applicable to this country, that transportation ought never to be inflicted except for life. Whenever the speedy reformation of a criminal is an object, the temporary discipline of a penitentiary has great advanta.i" over the temporary discipline of a' penal settlement, and the constant return of a great many natives of India from transportation would soon destroy that peculiar feeling of dread which this punishment now so happily inspires in India." These opinions were written in 1836, but have not since been acted up to ; for with the limits of transportation assigned by the Penal Code, other than life, i.e., for fourteen or for not less
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