The Army and Navy Quarterly (Volume 1); An Eclectric Magazine. V.1 Jan.-Oct. 1885 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1881. Excerpt: ... GERMAN MILITARY PUNISHMENT. BY C. J. ESTRANGE. (Concluded from page 201.) The regulations for imprisonment, with which form of punishment we concluded our notice last month, are as follows: a. The prisoner must be confined in a military fortress. 6. Imprisonment can be solitary; but solitude must not be enforced for more than three years without the consent of the prisoner. c. If the prisoner demand employment, it must be furnished him. Non-commissioned officers and men may be employed outside the prison without their own consent. d. Such employment must suit the capabilities of the different prisoners, must tend as far as possible to military ends, and be carried out under military supervision. The duration of an imprisonment amounting to more than six weeks is not included in the period which the prisoner is bound by law to serve. Fortress confinement, the maximum and minimum duration of which is, as in the case of imprisonment, fixed by law, may be found, in one form or another, in all codes of military punishment. It is, as already said, the cuetodia honesta, and enforced exclusively against officers whose offense does not involve dismissal from service. It forms idso a part of the civil code, in the punishment of misdemeanors not implying a loss of honor, as, for example, dueling; though incitement to a duel by a third party is always followed by imprisonment. An officer sentenced to fortress confinement is employed under military supervision in those duties to which he is best fitted, although the rules and regulations under which he works are very much less stringent than in the case of imprisonment. The third military punishment in the form of restriction on liberty is arrest. The civil code does not contain this penalty; but it forms one of the m...