CESSPOOL OF HUMANITY
DARTMOOR PRISON MAY BE CLOSED By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyrigh Reed. 9.5 a.m. LONDON, Sunda; The Home Secretary, Sir Willia Joynson-Hicks, who recently tourei the penal settlements and prisons, de scribed Dartmoor as a cesspool oi humanity, and confessed that it was difficult to know what to do with the criminal residuum. The “Sunday Express” now affirms that Dartmoor will gradually be closed, and convicts of this type sent to some distant, undeveloped part of the Empire to lead more useful lives on parole.—A. and N.Z.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 213, 28 November 1927, Page 1
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87CESSPOOL OF HUMANITY Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 213, 28 November 1927, Page 1
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