PRISON DISCIPLINE.
Says a late Wanganui paper: —ln these days of high pressure it is refreshing to turn to the quiet peacefulness of the pretty town at tho head of Blind Bay, and to read that in guileless Nelson the 1 sweet simplicity ’ of early Dunedin is still current. In the gaol inquiry lately held there, the exWarder Atkinson, referring to tho treatment of the prisoners, said —“Someof the prisoners are at times allowed to leave tho gaol, and have work to be admitted again. (Mr Shallorass—There is no cruelty in that, your Worships.) I have often heard them kicking at the door for admittance. They could go down to town and get drunk if they liked, and perhaps the warders would be discharged for allowing them to do so. I have let a prisoner out at daybreak, and locked the door after him by order of the matron. Tho male prisoners can converse with the women. The prisoners wore the prison dress when they were allowed out. There was no officers allowed with them then.”
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Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 2050, 18 September 1880, Page 3
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176PRISON DISCIPLINE. Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 2050, 18 September 1880, Page 3
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