Corporal Punishment in Gaol.

The Times, London, 4 January 1901 A report to the Birmingham justices presented by the Visiting Committee stated that there had been 36 serious assaults on prison officers and prisoners at Winson-green Gaol during the year. In some cases the assaults on officers had been found to warrant corporal punishment, but as the interval between […]

EXPERIENCE OF THE TAWSE

hand or bottom which is worse it’s often felt by some that punishment on the hand is a lesser option and somehow less painful than on the bottom I’m not so sure up to a time just before my 11th birthday attended a junior school in an urban district which was under the control of […]

ANNA’S SLIPPERING

Transcript bring Melissa’s class was doing in their gym in the middle of the lesson she and the other girls heard someone coming in from the changing room it was mrs. Townsend and she went over to the gym mistress and spoke quietly to her the exercises stopped for a moment and then resumed all […]

The law and the cane

Daily Mail, London, 13 December 1900 For caning a boy at Garrett-lane Board School, Wandsworth, E. Vincent, an assistant master, was summoned yesterday at the South-Western Police-court. The boy, Richard Butler, said he was thrown over a form and caned. “The master told you to hold out your hand: and you refused, eh? asked the […]

National Union of Teachers

The Times, London, 13 April 1900 The annual report of the Executive Committee of the National Union of Teachers, which will be presented to the conference at York on Monday next states that during the past year steady progress has been made in the matter of education throughout the country, and that in this important […]

Youthful Offenders

HOUSE OF LORDS, Tuesday — Lord James of Hereford, moving the third reading of the Youthful Offenders Bill, stated that a meeting of Chairmen and Deputy-Chairmen of Quarter Sessions had had the measure under consideration and had suggested an amendment, the effect of which was that the magistrate should have power in any case they […]

Youthful Offenders Bill 2

The Times, London, 29 March 1900 A Parliamentary return has been issued giving a list of the sentences of corporal punishment passed in England and Wales from March 31, 1898, to December 31, 1899. The total number of such sentences was 65, being 17 in cases of robbery with violence, and 48 for robbery with […]

Youthful Offenders Bill.

The Times, London, 13 March 1900, LORD JAMES OF HEREFORD moved the second reading of this Bill, the object of which is to substitute whipping for imprisonment as a punishment for children and young persons. Various causes had contributed to reduce the number of convictions for indictable offences in recent years, yet still there was […]