DARTMOOR
HUMANITY’S CESSPOOL. TRANSPORTATION SUGGESTED. (Received 28, 9.45 a.m.) London, Nov, 27. The Hon. Sir W. Joynson-Hicks, who recently toured .the penal settlements and prisons, described Dartmoor as “a cesspool of humanity.” He confessed that it was difficult io know what to do with the criminal residuum. The “Sunday Express now affirms that Dartmoor will gradually be closed and convicts of the type there sent to somp distant and undeveloped part of the Empire to lead more useful lives on parole.—(A. and N.Z.)
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, 28 November 1927, Page 5
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83DARTMOOR Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, 28 November 1927, Page 5
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