PRISON REFORM.
IN CALIFORNIAN GAOL.
STRIPED UNIFORM ABANDONED
Times'—'Sydney Sun' Special Cables. (Received Last Night, 7.5 o'clock.) NEW YORK, December 4.
The authorities at San Quentin Gaol, California, /where there is an average population of two thousand convicts, have abandoned the striped prison uniform, substituting plain blue serge suits. The convicts assembled in the courtyard to watch the burning of the old suits, the prison band playing tunes until all were consunied. Six suits were reserved for incorrigibles sentenced to solitary confinement.
The prisoners are now divided into three classes —incorrigibles, those only behaving well compulsorily, and the honour class,' consisting of men .aware of their wrongdoing and-anxi-ous for reformation. <
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 5 December 1913, Page 5
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110PRISON REFORM. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 5 December 1913, Page 5
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