PRISON AMENITIES
CONCESSIONS TO INMATES REGULATIONS AMENDED (Per United Press Association) WELLINGTON. Sept. 12. Amendments to Prisons Regulations, contained in to-night’s Gazette, prescribe for a routine medical examination of ever.v prisoner on reception. They also 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 if they so desire. Visits are 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 will also be permitted to wear their own private clothes after working hours. The amending regulations also regularise certain improvements to the rations scale which have.been in operation for some time past, and in addition they prescribe for the issue of fresh fruit.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24402, 13 September 1940, Page 4
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135PRISON AMENITIES Otago Daily Times, Issue 24402, 13 September 1940, Page 4
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