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Increase in Prison Commitments in Scotland

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 24, 1902

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 79, No. 25.

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Increase in Prison Commitments in Scotland

A REMARKABLE increase in the number of prison commitments in Scotland appears in the annual report of the prison commissioners of that country. The number in 1901 was over six thousand greater than it was in 1900. The commissioners account for this sudden and startling rise in the figures of crime by ascribing it to fresh legislation and alterations in police administration, which may or may not be the true explanation of the phenomenon. We are in the time when “iniquity shall abound.”