Mischief Waits for Idle Hands
UNEMPLOYMENT EVIL PROBATIONERS WHO LAPSE
(From Our Resident Reports:'.) WELLINGTON, Fr day.
Satan can always find plenty of mischief for idle hands. Mr. T. P. Mills, Probation Officer, realiwts this and in dealing with the subject of prisoners on probation, declares that it is the unemployment of many offenders on probation that is causing the greatest problem.
“If it is not tackled, crime increase will follow,*’ he said. “When a man is out of work it is very difficult for him to go straight, if his wife and # family are starving. The big problem is the man himself. Some are bad and some incompetent. One incompetent, who lost his job a week ago, pawned his tools for food. About 20 on probation are out of work now, which i 3 ▼ery hard for the man with a tendency to go wrong. The only way to inspire a man is to give him a chance.”
Failures in the probation system are aboue 7i per cent.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 44, 14 May 1927, Page 10
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