§ 3. Major Tufton Beamishasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he can now say whether he is satisfied that the present system whereby prisoners automatically earn remission of sentence not exceeding one-third of the whole sentence unless such remission is forfeited by bad conduct is a better arrangement than the earlier system whereby remission of sentence was only granted as a reward for good conduct.
§ Mr. EdeYes, Sir. The earlier system, based on a daily award of marks, was in practice no less automatic than the present one, which is just as effective as an incentive to good conduct and much simpler to operate.