THE PRISONS BOARD.
TO THE BDITOB 0» Tttß FSKSg. «ir,—ln your editorial of the 18th instant you refute the charge brought against members of the Prisons Board that they are puppets. I would like to ask you, Sir, upon what evidence the Board founds ita decisions? A man is taken in charge by the Prisons Department, and as far as I can guess only the warder, for whom the Con-troller-General speaks, is heard. Now I suggest that the Board must act either on the weight of the evidence or against it. The dice is loaded. Can the Board escape the critics? You suggest, Sir, that there is no way out of the difficulties of the situation. The obvious answer is that the Board should have more and better evidence before it. A psychological clinic is the obvious solution. A Prisons Department without a psychiatrist places us in the category ''which cannot be called enlightened by those aware of the developments in Europe."—Yours, etc., F. A. de la MARE. Hamilton. September 25th, 1929.
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Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19736, 28 September 1929, Page 19
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