412. While the ultimate responsibility for the selection of prisoners for the "Star" class rests with the superintendents of jails (subject to the control of the Inspector-General of Prisons), it is open to Magistrates to make recommendations in the matter; and it is very desirable that they should do so in order to give superintendents of jails the benefit of the knowledge, seeing that they are in a better position to know the circumstances in which the crime was committed.
