JUVENILE OFFENDERS

Hokitika Guardian, 9 July 1931, Page 3

JUVENILE OFFENDERS

VERY HARSHLY TREATED. t"reac> Association l>j Ihtvcvi ■ AOiegiapn— , . WASHINGTON, July 7. President Hoover has received the WicicersiUiin Law Enforcement Commitreport on a detailed study ol juvenile oiienders in the United States j.he report asserted that in the Federal institutions tne juvenile oiienders were placed, nearly wholly, in living quavers that were in “poor repair, were unsanitary,. and were not fire proof. It also stated: “Punishment in dark cells is given for trivial offences, and imprisonment in the guard house, ■such as six days for the possession of a one or two cent postage stamp.” The report says that bc{ys arc shackled in various types of leg-irons that the flogging system is'widely misused, and that over-crowding is widelv reported. The medical aid at on< prison for juveniles is said to be t< stave' off epidemics; rather than t treat those wild obviously are seriously ili;” The food supplies are alleged H be generally inadequate, andu.V'the hardest puishments are generally t.e bg found in. the ■institutions, thjit ai< for the reform of the young

- The report adds that the six months -'Tiding :31st December 1930, saw 2,24" hey.s and girls under: ■eighteen years o, p age incarcerated 990 of whom were put in on prohibition charges.