First Offenders' Probation.
The Wellington judges are gradually relaxing the attitude they originally took up with regard to the First Offenders' Probation Act to-day. In refusing an application to deal witli a ease under the Act, Mr Justice Richmond remarked yesterday that he considered that .the cases to which the First Offenders' Probation Act should be applied were those of young men who had been led by bad company to some criminal act; where, furthermore, there were persons who were so much interested in the offenders as to be willing to become surety for their good behaviour. He could understand that the Act might be useful in such oases. His Honor added that he would like to see one amendment made in the Act so as to provide that the person who gave his recognisancofor the prisoner's good behaviour should have the power of surrendering a prisoner if he did not conform to his (the surety's) instructions.
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Auckland Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 156, 5 July 1887, Page 5
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