Judge Richmond on the Mount Cook Prison.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 1475, 8 October 1885, Page 4

Judge Richmond on the Mount Cook Prison.

CUNITED; i PRE?S} AS,SOQIATjbN.) ) , ( Referring' this morning to the* central \u prißbnj'"'Whictt:'itf beitfg ereoted op. il^piint Gociki ' one of ■ the mpjJt centrnl ,' t p^itiong , ia li^1 i^ r ,ell i ingtpp,.:Mr ■, Justipe '^ictimond : said it was a perfect winder to Tiim that' it Bhpuld be ,ereete^ ther'ei andlie yievVed 1 it wjth Hi'ag.nst.'^Hb' deprecated that view ' ot penal difebiplihe- whibh r c6n fined m&b''%itlvin'Wclflirait«j ahdihis onevievir; was that it should not be carried out within such narrow-limits. He had no hesitation in. saying that oo k?fi u P, on the,,erection.of,this;binlding with abso]ny J dilgust. H^'Uiif }M know Wh'at^ the authorities thought, but it s^eYned' 1o him tprrible to place" a large penal institnifioVi in' the midst of ; a Margei city,/ and thus put crime m such a; prom m hut position. Hedid.notiknpwwhat.thpTo i Aro people v! thpn,ght ri about it, but he would be ypr}' .s^orry ( j;p' l i ve n'nder r .-tho, , jwalls p£ a gaoTan'his life. "The main' thinff'be regretted/ ln're'^d to' tho gaol itseif wnis flie'W'a^o'frooin' arid 'thY want of "power of clas'si 6 cation.' I wbk/to hiß,|pind : jnhuman to; con^ne'peraops.lor^ life. 'Prisoners oughi to be ahfe'trt 'rise by good cond'tict-toißomoof tlve comforts pf existence, and-that migkt be man.ng"H if penal eetablisKinonts were on a'eufficienily extensive scale.