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i. A boy under fourteen yeai's of age, not previously vicious, 

 should be restored to his parents upon their giving a guarantee of Ids 

 future good conduct. Failing this he should be sent to an Industrial 

 School. 



5. A boy under sixteen years of age, having a natural tendency 

 toward crime, or being convicted of a second otfence, should be sent 

 either to a Reformatory direct, or to an Industrial School on trial,^ 

 according to circumstances ; and a s[)ecial court should be organized 

 to deal with these cases, as well as with females charged with lieht 

 offences. A boy should never be brought to open Police Court nor 

 be sent to a county jail. 



6. Industrial Schools and Reformatories should not be considered 

 as places for punishment, but should be utilized wholly for the refor- 

 mation of character. The young persons sent t> these institutions 

 should not be committed for any definite period, but they should be 

 detained until reformation is attained, irrespective of the time 

 required. The officers of these institutions should be carefully 

 selected, preferably by a system of examination and promotion, and 

 without reference to party or social influence. 



7. As industrial employment is a necessary step towards reforma- 

 tion, and as this cannot be supplied by the county jails, the necessity 

 arises for prisons and reformatories of ample dimensions, where such 

 employment can be provided, and where other influences of a I'efor- 

 matory character may be utilized, and where a system of classification 

 may be carried on. 



8. The expense and management of such persons in such institu- 

 tions should be borne by the county fi'om which they are sent, when 

 such expense exceeds the proceeds of the industrial labor of the per- 

 sons so sent. 



9. Tramps and habitual drunkards should be sent to an institution 

 where they can be provided with productive industrial employment, 

 and whei-e they can be brought under reformatory influences, and 

 they should be detained in said institution under indeterminate sen- 

 tences. Incoi-rigibles should be sentenced to penitentiary for life. 

 They should be considered as having forfeited all right to regain their 

 liberty unless reformation takes place. 



10. In order to meet the requirements of the case there should be 

 sufficient prison accommodation in Ontario to relieve the county jails 

 of all persons undergoing sentence. This accommodation should be 

 provided either by enlai'giug the Central Prison or by erecting two 

 additional prisons, one in the east and the other in the west. There 

 should be unification in our prison system. The prisons should be 

 graded, and the reformatory principle in its most improved form and 

 after the best models should be incorporated with said system. 



