PENAL METHODS
The acting hon. secretary of the New Zealand Howard League for Penal Reform contradicts the statement of an official from the Home Office that in "NewZealand of those men and women sentenced to imprisonment between the, years 1911 and 4929, 72.6 per cent, arc known to have become happy and honest citizens." "This is," writes the correspondent, "most unfortunately, simply not' true. Mr. Weldon was completely mistaken; the figures cited are true only of one small and special class of these, raw and women imprisoned during the time mentioned. Further, he seems to have remained in ignorance of two other 'facts that should have led him to a very different conclusion. First the testimony of our. Year Book for many years ' past which shows that over vBO per cent, of those convicted each year have been convicted before; and, secondly, the size of our daily prison population, which is some four times, proportionately, that of.Eng-! land."
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 83, 5 October 1931, Page 6
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158PENAL METHODS Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 83, 5 October 1931, Page 6
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