PRISONS REPORT.
In his annual report the Inspector of Prisons remarks that it is surprising, but gratifying, to find how few complaints there are of real moment on the part of . prisoners, and he looks forward with pleasure to the time when cases of internperates, acute alcoholics, and supposed lunacy will no longer be sent to prisons for medical treatment. The First Offenders Act continues to give satisfaction, and it is believed, says the Inspector, that the Act has clone more to save those just entering a career of crime from the downward course than could have been expected from it by its most sanguine promoters. The I
actual number of persons who passed through the prisons during the year was 5,076 males and 465 females, a decrease on the previous year. As to the Habitual Criminals Act, the report states that since it came into force "some of the gaol-birds have flown from the Dominion, and others are earning an honest living, so that there is reason to hope that the list of habitual criminals will never be a very long one."
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9173, 24 August 1908, Page 4
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183PRISONS REPORT. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9173, 24 August 1908, Page 4
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