PRISON AFTER-CARE
TO THE EDITOR OF TEE PRESS. Sir, —You report in to-day's issue the sentencing of five men in our local Supreme Court, of which it is to be noted that four had been previously convicted, and the fifth but a youth of 19 years. The explanations generally tendered to Mr Justice Northcroft, stated briefly, are the lack of real organised after-care, and I firmly believe that to be mainly the cause of the reappearances. The official records show that £174 was expended last year in his direction, of which Auckland received £l5O from the Prisons Department. Surely it is real political economy, without going into a lot of details, and even ignoring the moral side, to have this matter placed on an effective basis. Speaking from memory, I believe that statistics would show that our comparative inactivity in this respect is causing an increase of recedivism. with, of course, added cost to the community.—Yours, etc.. PENAL PROGRESS. December 19, 1936.
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Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21971, 21 December 1936, Page 16
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