PRISON REFORM.
STATEMENT BY DR. FINDLAY. Cui XELEOiurn—rKKSs jbsocution.i Christohuroh, March 18. Dr. Findlay, who arrived from the north by tho Maori this morning, paid another visit" of inspection to Lyttelton tiaol, in company, with Mr. Laurcnson, M.P; Tho Minister made a close examination of that part of tho prison in which young offenders were placed, and got Mr. Mi Clcary, governor of tho gaol, to give him full, information as to tho mothods of treatment' adopted in regard to this particular class. Tho Minister stated to an "Evening News" reporter subsequently that Mr. Cleary had done tho best ho could with tho quarters at his command, hut it was clear that the prison was in no way adapted for classification and tho proper separate treatment of prisoners from 16 to 21 years of ago. Tho system ho (Dr. Findlay) proposed to adopt would involve very slight structural alterations, and ho hoped by its mean's 1 to affect tho .segregation of hardened criminals from 'first offenders, thoso latter again being subdivided into two broad classes according to ago.
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 460, 19 March 1909, Page 7
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178PRISON REFORM. Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 460, 19 March 1909, Page 7
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