PRISON AMENITIES.
IMPROVEMENTS INTRODUCED. Per .Press Association. WELLINGTON; Sept. 13. Amendments to the Prisons Regulations contained in to night’s Gazette prescribe for the routine medical examination of every prisoner on reception. They confirm the practice of prisoners being permitted at the discretion of the controlling officers to 'have their own shaving outfits and authorise prisoners to shave daily ii they so desire. Visits arc liberalised, and under the new regulations, prisoners are to be permitted to write a letter a day instead of one per week as previously. Prisoners are also to be permitted to wear their own private clothes after working hours. The amending regulations also regularise certain improvements to the ration scale which has been in operation for some time past, and in addition prescribe for the issuing of fresh fruit.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 245, 13 September 1940, Page 6
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133PRISON AMENITIES. Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 245, 13 September 1940, Page 6
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