Convicts In American Gaols.
EDGAR WALLACE AMAZED. LONDON, November 27. The well-known writer of detective stories, Mr. Edgar Wallace, yesterday returned from America. He said he had spent his entire time with the police studying the crime wave in that country. Mr. Wallace was amazed by the American convict system. Prisoners went into the exercise yards in the gaols smoking cigars and doing much as they liked.
There was no discipline. Every prisoner had comfortable apartments, totally unlike cells. The convicts and the warders were more like "all boys together."
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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 282, 28 November 1929, Page 7
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