FEWER CRIMINALS.
HIGH HOPES AT HOME.
WHAT LORD HEWART SAYS. SPLENDID BORSTAL SYSTEM. (By Cable.—tress Amocl&tion. -Copyright.) (Received 12.30 p.m.) LONDON, August 6. The International Prison Congress and the Imperial Institute were addressed by the Rt. Hon. Gtordon Lord Hewart, Chief Justice of England, who emphasised the Value of probation. He gave statistics showing tiiat under the Borstal system 70 and 80 per cent of boys and glrlg respectively never got into trouble again. The conference passed a resolution that it is necessary that accused and also convicted offenders should be phyeically and mentally examined .by specially qualified practitioners, and necessary services for that purpose should be installed in institutions, such system to help to determine biological and sociological causes of criminality. Some delegates strongly objected to interference with prisoners before trial, but Sir Evelyn Ruggles-Brise. the noted authority, assured the congress that there was no desire to interfere with the ordinary procedure of criminal justice. — (A. anil N.Z. Cable.)
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Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 185, 7 August 1925, Page 7
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