PRISON REFORM
Sir,-On reading your leading article for September 12 it seems that the Howard League for Penal Reform has brought to your notice a subject about which apparently you have. had little knowledge or interest. It is true that those unfortunate people behind bars have few friends and that their case arouses little of public interest. It is also true, however, that a small group of people have concerned themselves with the welfare of those unfortunates and are working in the attempt to bring the prison system of this country more in line with that of other and more: advanced and enlightened countries. The pamphlet submitted to you contained signed and witnessed statements from reliable sources. There is no exaggeration or overstatement of facts as experienced by the men concerned. We do not hesitate to say that up to the present there has been little that can
be called reformative in our prison system and that numbers of men have been returned to society more anti-social and less fitted to take their place as responsible citizens than before they went to prison. Moreover, the health of many has deteriorated because of conditions in the prisons and lack of modern knowledge applied in the medical service available. That society should carry so great a burden as the criminal population of our prisons indicates and not concern itself to see that conditions conform to the most up-to-date and enlightened methods is for us to shut our eyes to what is our obvious duty to the com-
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AMY F.
CRUMP
(Auckland).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 432, 3 October 1947, Page 5
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260PRISON REFORM New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 432, 3 October 1947, Page 5
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