NAKED CHILDREN.
CONFINED IN FLAT SINCE BIRTH Prison reform will follow the reform in the penal and civil codes of Turkey. The Turkish Minister of Justice announces that five regional penitentiaries will be built as soon as possible to take the place of the 400 prisons now maintained at great expense. The new codes adopted last January by the General Assembley were taken from Switzerland and Italy, but the model for the prisons will be French. That country has three large penitentiari9s, but the Turkish authorities have decided on five because of the great distances in Turkey and the difficulties of communication. The first of the new institutions will be built near Angora, work beginning within the next six or seven months. The cost is estimated at 150,000 livres or about 375,000 dollars. As scon as the’ prison can be opened, the small gaols will be closed throughout Central Turkey except for a very limited number of institutions at which sentences of less than a year will be served and prisoners will be detained during trial.
Since the cost of building all five penitentiaries at one time w r ould be
prohibitive, the plan will bo to undertake one each year. The. second will probably be that at Smyrna. The others in order will bo in Constantinople, in Eastern Anatolit and in Adana.
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Putaruru Press, Volume IV, Issue 160, 25 November 1926, Page 2
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