A PRISONER'S TREATMENT.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1505, 30 July 1912, Page 2

A PRISONER'S TREATMENT.

Sir,—Through your valuable and widelycirculated columns I cannot refrain from commenting upon the injustice meted, out to those who, unfortunately, have come (Within tho grasp of the law. A case in point is where a very respectable young man received a very unjust and unmerciful sentence for an offence certainly not of. a very, severe nature. After Serving his term, with exemplary conduct, ho was discharged, well, practically, a cripple. Ho was thoroughly sound in limb and body (I should, say a picture of health) when he was'initiated into prison life. His health is certainly on tho downward grade, being 12st. when he entered prison, and is now only lOst. 21b. His present condition is due to the.fact that ho received the accident whibt carrying out his duties in prison, and although eighteen months has now elapsed since the accident, he is unable to resume his usual vocation ill life. I trust tho new Minister for Justice will realise his responsibility in this deserving case, that something may be done to alleviate his present suffering. I-admittho lawsof our country will allow a man to be punished for his crime, but X should be sorry to know that, after expiating his crime, it will allow a man to be discharged from prison Practically a invalid and maimed for life, n conclusion, I trust, as I have already stated, that the matter "will receive tbo earnest consideration the Justice Department, and that something may be done for sncli a deserving case. Perhaps the matter should be brought before Parliament, with a view of knowing a little about the interior of our jndicial system. I am given to understand the in- . jured person anticipates speaking in many parts of. the Dominion On "The Judicial System," of what he has seen in prison, also at the camp, and to prove the fact that, under present administration, the man leaves prison worse than when he entered. Thanking you for your valuable space,—l am, etc., A LOVER OF JUSTICE. [Our correspondent is somewhat vaguo as to what actually happened to the "injured'person." He had better communicate with' the Minister for Justice.]