MR TURNBULL SEEKS INFORMATION.
Mr Turnbull has given notice that he would ask the Government this afternoon whether it is their intention to take any action on the following sub jects and recommendations alluded to in the report of the Inspector of Prisons : —l. To abolish schools in different gaols of the colony on the grounds stated in the report, viz., that endeavoring to educate prisoners is a mistake ; 2. That each prisoner be periodically weighed, in order to test whether he is losing or gaining flesh ; 3. That the present dietary scale be altered in order to check that undue propensity to increase in weight which prisoners at present undergoing sentence exhibit; 4. Appointing a Medical Board, as recommended, to inquire how little a man can possibly exist on, in order that the dietary scale may be adapted for that purpose; 5. That the gaoler shall be permitted to punish prisoners at will without the consent of the Visiting Justices.
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2598, 19 July 1881, Page 2
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161MR TURNBULL SEEKS INFORMATION. South Canterbury Times, Issue 2598, 19 July 1881, Page 2
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