AUSTRALIAN PRISONERS.
A DECREASE. Received July 9, 10.10 a.m. SYDNEY, July 9. The report of the Comptroller of Prisons shows that the number of prisoners dealt with last year was 398 less than in the previous year. MELBOURNE, July 9. The average of the prison population last year was 914, against 1,007 in the previous year. In sixteen years the proportion of prisoners to the general population has fallen from one in 613 to one in 1,387.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9138, 10 July 1908, Page 5
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77AUSTRALIAN PRISONERS. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9138, 10 July 1908, Page 5
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