PRISON REPORT
Increased Numbers In New South Wales Gaols WAR CONDITIONS BLAMED Rec. 11.30 a.m. SYDNEY, this day. More than 37 per cent of the prisoners in New South Wales gaols at June 30 last were under 25 years of age and these were the most difficult to handle. This is stated in the report of the State deputy-Controller of Prisons, Mr. L. C. Nott. The report reveals that New South Wales had 1703 prisoners compared with 1610 in the previous year. Last year 796 prisoners of 21 years of age and under 25 were admitted to gaol compared with 705 in the previous year. Conditions caused by the war, said Mr. Nott, had a marked influence on the increase in the number of young prisoners. So far as young women were concerned the presence, particularly in the metropolitan area, of many servicemen had given young girls the opportunity of obtaining, by immoral living, more money than they could have earned otherwise.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXV, Issue 62, 14 March 1944, Page 5
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