PRISONS AND PRISONERS.
TO THE EDITOR 0* THE rRESS. g; r —Commenting on the R ev - Percy KeveU's letter following; joui interesting leader on the lat«t > report of the Prisons Board, I would like to call attention to one point. In speaKing of the number of prisoners transferred from our two local prisons to the mental hospital be- dr *??/"ses tion to the necessity for such cases being treated by a specialist m P s ? c , l "~. locical " medicine and suggests that "one of .the prisons could be as a mental'home for such cases. May. I call his , attention to a resolution passed. at the last International Pemtentiaiv Congress held in London .n 1925? It states "that penal establishments are not suitable foT adults or abnormal mentality showing dangerous tendencies—that is, persons who are feeble-minded or mentally, deficient, but these: should be sent to non-peilal institutions for proper treatment• further. ' that' s'uch persons; should not again be let loose upon society without close supervision."— • September 20th, 19^7.
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Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19112, 22 September 1927, Page 11
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