WOMEN IN GAOL
INCREASED NUMBERS IN BRITAIN MISS L. BARKER’S COMMENTS. NEED OF BETTER SENSE OF RESPONSIBILITY. (By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright) (Received This Day, 12.30 p.m.) LONDON, April 5. Miss Lilian Barker, Assistant Commissioner and Inspector of Prisons, revealed that more women were in gaol in Britain at present than ever. The women going to prison were not all poor. Miss Barker said: “It is difficult to make young girls understand that they have a responsibility to their country and their homes. They just want to live their own lives and go their own ways.” Miss Barker added that she believed the trouble began in the home and was aggravated by war conditions. She asked what could be expected of children who went through air raiding and lost a great deal of schooling; also of children who slept night after night in public shelters, which early in the war were a disgrace and an abomination.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 April 1942, Page 4
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155WOMEN IN GAOL Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 April 1942, Page 4
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