OUR GAOLS.
(To the Editor.) rfir, —it must strike many of the thinking community that with the everyday changes and improvements we are making in our public institutions, the time has arrived for a moving change in the management of our criminals. The first need is classification, and some different labour besides stone breaking, for our crowded prisons. Without any desire to reduce the punishment for evildoing, we should endeavour to turn them out better men and women when their terms expire, and with an honest desire for legitimate labour for a living "Wo are all well informed of the benefits derived from an abundant use of vegetables as a diet. If the Government acquired large paddocks, in close vicinity of the gaols, some of the prisoners could be set to cultivate abundance of vegetables for the use of the gaols and hospitals. Surely the interest of cultivating and watching the growth of their different patches would tend to their moral improvement and' : iessen the prison expenses.—l am, etc., IEE PS ADVANCE.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXVII, Issue 230, 26 September 1906, Page 8
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172OUR GAOLS. Auckland Star, Volume XXXVII, Issue 230, 26 September 1906, Page 8
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