“VETERANS OF CRIME.”

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 98, 2 May 1913, Page 3

“VETERANS OF CRIME.”

A HOME FOR A G feD ! < ■ COkVlt'TS. 'The'btlipants oPthe’ bHminal hiffafic at Parkhufst’’Prison, ! Isle of Wight, about 30 ln !l Axffnber are bed ing transferred to the Broadmoor . . . k f|h‘f | j Criminal Lunatic Asylum in order tha| the buildings now used by them may be devoted to the special lenient treat* ment of agcd > ~ponvicts under the regulations- introduced by-Mr Winston* Churchill. This special ‘treatment, which in| ,€^V < PI thAT/ iv j k m‘ s ft extra diet, reading of periodicals, am( other ad vaariages somewhat similar tcfi tliose in vogue at the new “prisoni hotPlb’' I f6r' , lfffbitual i: tlritd{nals at'Camp' 'HHl? ; feleM»i Wight; hivs ‘been 'cat-fM •ohiornhom4 ? time. nn-i; ~>..&*■* | lit his ; *rhport on ; this special treat-? dnent the Chaplain ol 'Parkhurst Pri-| son says these “vetCrarts of crime” ap-i preciatedl so much that he is of Opinion that may of them, when their pro- 1 sent term'expires, will return to penal:, servitude in order to end'thcir days in comfort and cleanliness. 11 u