ANNUAL REPORT ON PRISONS.
(OUB PABLIAMBNTAUY REPOBXBE)
Wellington, This Day.
The Inspector of Prisons Reports that it is satisfactory to find that during the past year there has been a dimiuuiton in crime, a considerable reduction in punishments for prison offences, and a decided advancement in classification.
Six deaths occurred during the year, all being males.
None of these prisoners were fit subjects for a prison, but should have been committed to either a hospital or some such institution.
The average number of prisoners in the different prisons during the past year has been 529’29 males, and 54'17 females, a decrease on the previous year of 7‘74 males, and an increase of o’l9 females. Alterations to the terrace gaol, Wellington are, Inspector Hume reports, urgently needed. New gaolers houses are badly wanted at Wellington and Dunedin, and at Napier a boundary wall is much required. The tree planting prison at Waiotapu, twenty three miles from the Rotorua on the Galatea and Taupo roads is favorably referred to, and the Forest Department, for whom the twemy-five prisoners employed are working, reports that the men are working quite as well as free men.
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Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 2 August 1901, Page 3
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191ANNUAL REPORT ON PRISONS. Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 2 August 1901, Page 3
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