PRISONERS’ TREATMENT
i “CRANK AND TREADMILL” GONE DISTINCTIONS EXPLAINED Press Association PARLIAMENT BLDGS., Today. “There is no such thing as hard labour, implying hard fare and a hard bed,” said the Minister of Justice, the Hon. T. M. Wilford, in answering in the House a question whether the term “reformative detention” signified any special methods of reformative treatment. “There is wide distinction between the method of treatment of prisoners sentenced to reformative detention and prisoners sentenced to imprisonment with or without hard labour,” replied the Minister. “Special forms of hard labour, such as the crank and treadmill, do not now exist. The sentences of reformative detention prisoners are subject at any time to review by the Prisons Board, whereas those of hard-labour prisoners can be reviewed only after the expiry of half the term imposed. When reformative detention prisoners can with safety to society be transferred, they are removed to prison farms and camps, where the conditions are essentially reformative in character. Hard-labour prisoners undergoing short sentences are detained in town prisons on quarrying and similar occupations.”
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 797, 18 October 1929, Page 18
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