LIFE IN PRISON
Sir-In the course of a review of three books dealing with prisons and the prison system (Book Shop, Wednesday, August 18, 1YA) the reviewer remarked that no comparable books had been written in New Zealand. The only one he knew of was Till Human Voices Wake Us, by Ian Hamilton; and that, he: implied, was not objective and was out of date. The adjective "objective," as Lionel Trilling contends in his very fine essay on the Kinsey Report, is today being much misused. If, as several reviewers have said, Till Human Voices Wake Us gives the reader the feeling of what it is like to be a prisoner in New. Zealand prisons, then for the purposes of reform it could hardly be called "not objective." As for the book being out of date, I would suggest that the Controller of Prisons himself would be the first to admit that the fundamental problems of prison life are not solved in the course of eight years. It is noteworthy that Till Human Voices Wake Us was not reviewed either by Book Shop or ZB Book Review. Since it has been reviewed very favourably in a number of publications, in- cluding The Listener, it would be interesting to know the reason why.
PRISON
REFORM
(Auckland).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 792, 24 September 1954, Page 5
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215LIFE IN PRISON New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 792, 24 September 1954, Page 5
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