DECREASE IN PRISON POPULATION.
As a commentary upon the good that the humanitarian Acts put upon the Statute Book in the have done, the following remarks by the Governor of Gloucester Gaol, in England, is worth noting. He gives the following reasons for the decrease of prison population. 1. The Justices’ Administration Act enables Justices, instead of sending a man to prison if he had no money to pay the fine, to give him time to pay. This alone had reduced the prison population of the country by 150.000. 2. The Probation Act. 3. The Discharged Prisoners’ Aid Society helped men when they went out. Unless a man could obtain a job when he went out, he was hopeless. The Governor appealed to the Farmer’s Union (before which he was speaking) to take men from prison and give them employment. He would only recommend those whom he thought would justify his recommendation.
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White Ribbon, Volume 32, Issue 380, 18 March 1927, Page 14
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152DECREASE IN PRISON POPULATION. White Ribbon, Volume 32, Issue 380, 18 March 1927, Page 14
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