Caption
Modern trend in the battle against law-breakers is to make the sentence fit the criminal rather than the crime. Confinement is no longer considered enough; prison life must help the inmate to change to give society long-term protection.
Release Date
July 30, 1957
Materials
Typescript with illustrations
Photographers
Lunney, GarCollection
CMCP fonds
Credit Line
Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography fonds, National Gallery of Canada Library and Archives
Caption
The lad's sponsor helps to find him a job. In the past 7 years more than 80% of the men released on parole have kept within the law. Borstal Associations stress that more schools and the vitally needed qualified men to staff them, could achieve similar results with other offenders.
Date
July 1, 1954
Accession Number
LAC-NFB71365
Materials
Black and white negative
Photographer
Enumber
e011175988
Collection
National Film Board of Canada
Credit Line
Library and Archives Canada, Mikan no. 205928
Caption
Borstal philosophy maintains that punishment consists in the loss of liberty and that there is no advantage in making confinement more unpleasant than it needs be. Its ideal is to send the prisoner back into the community a better citizen, fit for freedom.
Date
July 1, 1954
Accession Number
LAC-NFB71380
Materials
Black and white negative
Photographer
Enumber
e011175989
Collection
National Film Board of Canada
Credit Line
Library and Archives Canada, Mikan no. 205928
Caption
Men are released from New Haven when they are "psychologically ready" for freedom, under supervision of the B.C. Borstal Association. Above, hearing is conducted by parole board: at table F. C. Boyes left, Oscar L. Erickson centre, H. C. Grant right, V. H. Goad, social worker, far right; J. D. Rickaby, B.C. Borstal Assoc., centre rear.
Date
July 1, 1954
Accession Number
LAC-NFB71385
Materials
Black and white negative
Photographer
Enumber
e011175990
Collection
National Film Board of Canada
Credit Line
Library and Archives Canada, Mikan no. 205928
Caption
Prisoners are sent to B.C.'s New Haven after a careful classification of their needs indicates that they would benefit from a program of intensive training under minimum security restrictions. An "open" Borstal-type institution, New Haven receives only offenders between the ages of 16-23, the years when habitual criminals are made.
Date
July 1, 1954
Accession Number
LAC-NFB71387
Materials
Black and white negative
Photographer
Enumber
e011175991
Collection
National Film Board of Canada
Credit Line
Library and Archives Canada, Mikan no. 205928
Caption
Since the criminal needs to undergo modification in attitudes, habits and personality, many modern criminologists are opposed to the "short" sentence on the grounds that it seldom leads to rehabilitation. The "flexible" sentence is considered basic to any training program in which skills are acquired, anti-social attitudes reformed.
Date
July 1, 1954
Accession Number
LAC-NFB71392
Materials
Black and white negative
Photographer
Enumber
e011175992
Collection
National Film Board of Canada
Credit Line
Library and Archives Canada, Mikan no. 205928
Photostory #116:Borstal System: Training For Freedom
Photographers
Maker
National Film Board of Canada
Release Date
July 30, 1957
Collection
CMCP fonds
Credit Line
Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography fonds, National Gallery of Canada Library and Archives
Main Text
Modern trend in the battle against law-breakers is to make the sentence fit the criminal rather than the crime. Confinement is no longer considered enough; prison life must help the inmate to change to give society long-term protection.
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