"MAKING GOOD"

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 38, 14 February 1930, Page 16

"MAKING GOOD"

EX-CONVICT'S £1500 A YEAK

In England, an ex-conyict, who once held a trusted position as a secretary, and started again when discharged from gaol as a clerk.at 50s a week, is now earning a salary of £1500 a year.

This is one example of how soino exconvicts "make good," described in the annual report of the Central Discharged Prisoners' Aid Society of Eng land. The report states: "A most encouiaging feature has been the visits received from those who have been helped by the society in previous years. "The secretary of the society has acted as best man for the second time in his career ai a discharged prisoner's wedding. The first bridegroom attained a salaried position of £1000 a year." A remarkable story of a man Js regeneration is told:—

'A drug addict, who had lost all sense of moral and other responsibilities, was sentenced to a sharp term of imprisonment. Compulsory abstention from drugs was a severe punishment in the early days of his stay in prison. "Slowly, but surely the skilled attention of the authorities and the prison doctor wrought beneficial results, and when he faced his difficult future in the outer world again his own words were, 'Prison has made a man of me.'

"Outdoor life, in continuation of the beneficial influence begun in prison, was aimed at, and he was eventually started in work on a farm."