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Penal sanctions

 Subject
Subject Source: UK Archival Thesaurus

Found in 130 Collections and/or Records:

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(Untitled), 17 Feb 1910

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/48/19
Scope and Contents

Letter from Sir Francis Hopwood [later Lord Southborough] (Colonial Office) to WSC congratulating him on his appointment as Home Secretary and urging him to reduce prison sentences whenever possible.

Dates: 17 Feb 1910
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 28 Mar 1907

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/29/67
Scope and Contents

Letter from Herbert Gladstone [later Lord Gladstone] (Home Office) to WSC on the case of William Taylor, a prisoner serving a sentence for the attempted murder of Judge Parry. Signed typescript.

Dates: 28 Mar 1907
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 15 Dec 1910

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 28/117/57
Scope and Contents

Copy of a letter from [Lord Northcliffe, formerly Alfred Harmsworth] to WSC in which he expresses concern at the inaccuracy in the press of discussions concerning the treatment of convicts and asks whether WSC would give permission for a writer, artist and photographer to visit prisons to research a series of articles for his London magazine.

Dates: 15 Dec 1910
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(Untitled), 24 Feb 1910 - 22 Jul 1910

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/237/11-13
Scope and Contents

Proofs of correspondence between WSC [Home Secretary] and John Galsworthy on abolishing solitary confinement in prisons, [from H V Marrot's biography of Galsworthy]. Covering letter CHAR 2/237/10. Date of proofs 1935.

Dates: 24 Feb 1910 - 22 Jul 1910
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 19 Jun 1935

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/240B/165-168
Scope and Contents

Letter from A Morley Fletcher, Private Secretary to Katharine, Duchess of Atholl to the Private Secretary to WSC, enclosing a press cutting from the National Citizen, "Terrorism and Congress: The Sinn Fein of the East".

Dates: 19 Jun 1935
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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