PRISON REFORM.
his intention tdp vielb-all the .prisons'.'of: the the Minister for Justice; (Hon. Br. Findlay) .lately ■■.inspected '.. the./ Terrace -Gaol.'■'■ Hβ ■:' informed '-a Boiunion reporter yesterday that lie spent about two hours ■•'in tho building, examining all the cells, and:making a,thorough.investigation.. Hβ found that: part .of the- prison": was quite up-to-date,- though l other partions iwere not. V'The accommodation-..was usually '.very fully .taxed; He considered that it ! was very well' Hef'received a"large, number of applications :from .prisoners ~for leave , to petition the-Governor to remitjportiqns of .sentences, ■ and; the/'like, and : iii this, way he met.many of theprisoneTs personally.; :,'...:: .■.■.'.'•;• ;, ■'~■:/-;■'.: :;:'-:.; - ■'-. '. ' Having now inspected the prisons in,the four, : principal:centres,- the Minister is busily 'engaged in devising a' scheme of classification of prisoners, which he intends-to havo thoroughly criticised by experts, and afterwards submitted .to Cabinet. Ho is also devoting further attention to the prison systems oT England and America, and making himself more fully ' acquainted with the historical and ■ theoretical literature of the subject.
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 439, 23 February 1909, Page 10
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161PRISON REFORM. Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 439, 23 February 1909, Page 10
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