PROBATION'S EFFECTS

Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 71, 23 March 1923, Page 9

PROBATION'S EFFECTS

GOOD IN NINE CASES OUT OF TEN. AICKLAXD'S hXI'F.UI KM K. (By Association.) ORKYMOt'TH, this day. Owen Francis Win. ((Council, railway cadet, convicted of theft of two postal notes, came up for sentence at (Jreymouth Supreme Court to-day. .Mr. Justice Adams, referring to the application to place the prisoner on probation, said that experience in Auckland of the working of the Act proved that 1)0 per cent of cases so dealt with resulted in the reclamation of the prisoners concerned, lie desired to remove any idea Lhat probation was a condonation of tin- olfeiuv, and no actual punishment. Probation amounted to severe discipline, .uul during the term ensured supervision of conduct with a maximum of probability of reform. In regard to convicted officers in places of trust probation had to be applied with extreme caution, but he thought the present case exceptional, (i.i onncll was sentenced to three years - probation, and ordered to pay the costs of the prosecution, and submit weekly to the probation ollicer an account of all money received and expended.

Probation was refused to .Tames Lancaster Parker, convicted of indecent, assault on a marred woman, and he was sentenced to three years - reformative detention .Ins Honor remarking that th,. matter was thus left entirely to the Prison Hoard.