WAR AND DECLINE OF CRIME
Mr. Herbert Samuel (the British Home Secretary) recently stated that the present prison population compared with that of two years ago shows .1 marked decrease, and'the comparison .between tho present number and the pre-war number is as follows:— Mav, Slay, • 1914. 191 U. Local prisons 13,667 ",59-i Convict and . preventive detention prisons 2,576 2,10.1 Borstal Institutions 937 564 Soven' prisons have already been closed and lent to tho War Office, and tho closing: of five others is under consideration. 'Tho Borstal Institution at Ecltham has been lent to the War Office as a place of internment.
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2825, 17 July 1916, Page 6
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101WAR AND DECLINE OF CRIME Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2825, 17 July 1916, Page 6
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