GAOL CONDITIONS
LIBERALISING REGULATIONS MANY NEW AMENITIES [Per United Press Association.] WELLINGTON, September 12. Amendments to Prisons Regulations, contained in to-night’s 1 Gazette,’ prescribe for a routine medical examination of every prisoner on reception. They also confirm the practice of prisoners being permitted, at the discretion of the controlling officers, to have their own shaving outfits, and authorise prisoners to shave daily if they so desire. Visits are liberalised, and under the new regulations prisoners are to be permitted to write a letter a day, instead of one per week as previously. Prisoners will also be permitted to wear their own private clothes after working hours. The amending regulations al£o regularise certain improvements to the rations scale which have been in operation for some time past, and in addition they prescribe for the issue of fre'sh fruit.
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Evening Star, Issue 23680, 13 September 1940, Page 11
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137GAOL CONDITIONS Evening Star, Issue 23680, 13 September 1940, Page 11
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