For them the State must make provision at home, but not in prison.
A scheme of this character, if once put into active and thorough operation, would naturally work itself out, for year by year the number of young fellows to whom it would apply would grow less and less; but while working itself out, it would also work out the salvation of many young men, and bring lasting benefits upon our country.
Vagrancy, with its attendant evils, would be greatly diminished, many prisons would be closed, workhouses and casual wards would be less necessary.

The cost of the scheme would be more than repaid to the community by the savings effected in other ways.

The moral effect also would be equally large, and the physical effects would be almost past computing, for it would do much to arrest the decay of the race that appears inseparable from our present conditions and procedure.
But the State must do something more than this; for many young habitual offenders are too young for emigration.

For them the State reformatories must be established, regardless of their physical condition.

To these reformatories magistrates must have the power of committal as certainly as they have the power of committal to prison.