PROBATION SYSTEM
THE VIEWS OF JUDGE ADAMS. By Telegraph—Press Association. Auckland, August 3. Several prisoners appeared in the Supreme Court for sentence before Mr. Justice Adams to-day, and in granting probation to a forger Hia Honour took occasion to express his views on tho meaning of probation, also (in another case) to refer incidentally to the Court of Appeal’s recent decision in regard to the standard of punishment. "The Court of Appeal," said His Honour, "did not in fact lay down any new principle. The application of tho principle has been in practice for twenty years. “Probation,” said Hia Honour nt a later stage, "is not a license to do wrong, nor is it very desirable to differentiate it from punishment. In actual fact it is itself, in my judgment, a somewhat serious punishment. A prisoner put on probation must understand that he must be exceedingly careful to comply implicitly with the directions of the probation officer and with the conditions laid, down in the 1920 Act.”
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Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 266, 4 August 1921, Page 5
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167PROBATION SYSTEM Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 266, 4 August 1921, Page 5
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