WOMEN PRISONERS
AT AUSTRALIAN REFORMATORY \ IMPROVED CONDITIONS An Australian social experiment, Introduced a few years ago by the former Minlter of Justice, Mr L. O. Martin, in connection with women convicted as "first offenders" has rapidly proved its worth. Many young women have returned to respectable life after serving sentences in a prison devoid of cells, or harsh discipline—the new women's reformatory at Long Bay, where inmates can sing, paint and grow flowers. An 18 year old girl sentenced to six months' gaol will, as a first offender, be kept away from the influence of hardened culprits. Instead of a cell, she will be allotted a neatly-furnished room. With others, she will share recreation rooms* and a lounge, and may cultivate her own plot of ground for flowers. Each Saturday she will be invited to attend a concert by outside artists, and recreation-hour activities include . singing, games, radio listening, sewing, knitting, sketching and painting. It has been Tound that many women culprits have been able to develop latent art talent under this new corrective treatment.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 5, Issue 12, 4 February 1942, Page 2
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175WOMEN PRISONERS Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 5, Issue 12, 4 February 1942, Page 2
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