Act Info:
This Act may be called the Bombay Borstal Schools Act, 1929.
NOTES
Borstal.-- This is custodian institution, named from Borstal in Kent. The first institution was established in 1908, intended to segregate young offenders from criminals (adults). Also, intended to provide a regime of discipline and training. Such schools are generally organized in houses, like public schools; some are 'open' whereas camps are used for certain schools. Always emphasis, in such schools, is on work, either mental or manual, mainly productive, and vocational training youths and girls within requisite age limits may be sent for Borstal training, the maximum period is fixed by the law governing such system and in practice they are released earlier when deemed to have made sufficient progress to justify their release.