STATE REFORMATORIES
INSTITUTIONS FOR GIRL OFFENDERS. Tho Minister for Justice (Hon. T. M. Wilford) stated yesterday that lie intended to arrange for tho proclaiming of State reformatories at Aucklaud, Weilington, Christchurch, and Dunedin under the Reformatory Institutions Amendment Act, 1918. This amendment, designed to meet a need that has been emphasised by social workers all over New Zealand, gives the Minister for Justice power to transfer to a State reformatory institution or reformatory homo any female prisoner serving a sentenco ofwhich not more than two years remain unexpired. , Mr. Wilford added that he believed it would be possible to make the women's prison at Addington, Christchurch, the first State reformatory institution for young girls. The women prisoners now occupying the building would be .transferred elsewhere. He intended visiting I Christchurch shortly with the Inspector of Prisons to dccido tho (iiiwtion finally.
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 268, 8 August 1919, Page 6
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141STATE REFORMATORIES Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 268, 8 August 1919, Page 6
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