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Indeterminate sentences thus became entry and exit points of the prison in the Anglophone societies.
The English judges, in particular - in contrast to their Nordic counterparts, who were more used to sharing their knowledge and authority in court and who, anyway, were civil servants rather than a specially selected elite group from an already elite profession - were antithetical to indeterminate sentences and the regulatory framework attached to them.
Ruggles-Brise (1921: 58, our italics) was thus at pains to point out that indeterminate sentencing provisions 'do not touch that large army of habitual vagrants, drunkards, or offenders against bye-laws who figure so prominently in the prison population.
[but] we are aware that the public mind is distrustful of any kind of indeterminate sentence'.
Sutherland (1908: 92-3), although a strong supporter of the indeterminate sentence, was also of the opinion that 'there is not the remotest chance of a British legislature entertaining or sanctioning such a proposal [for the sterilization of criminals and defectives, and even if there was] it would be impossible to find a public mutilator . . . no doubt it is a simple and speedy remedy to put the habitual criminal and delinquent "on the list" as persons who "would not be missed", but listing them for lethal, or mutilating, chambers is not the way either justice or humanity points'.
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