NORMAL WAGES
FOR HARD-LABOUR PRISONERS. ADVOCATED BY W.E.A. TUTOR. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) DUNEDIN, December 2. A plea for the payment of normal wages to prisoners and the sale of their products on community markets was made by Mr J. A. Brailsford, W.E.A. tutor, in an address last night to the Howard League. He said that under the present regime there was hardly any appeal to social motives, and under compulsion and fear a prisoner was progressively unfitted for later community life. With more opportunities for education and. rewards for work a convict’s personality would develop with the prospect of what he could do for his dependants and the community. So-called reformative detention was more degrading than the hard-labour system, for it added the additional dread of incurring the displeasure of the gaoler, tending to create toadying and cringing to secure the reward of early release. The pretence that men were judged by the measure of their reformation was a tragic farce.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 December 1943, Page 3
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161NORMAL WAGES Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 December 1943, Page 3
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