BRITISH PRISON PLAN
FAMOUS GAOLS TO BE CLOSED "MORE HUMANE SYSTEM" PENAL SERVITUDE MAY BE ABANDONED (TTCHTED PBESS ASSOCIATION —COFTSIGHT.) (Received September 10, 10.15 p.m.) LONDON, September 10. The "Daily Herald" says that the Government proposes to close Dartmoor and Pentonville and reform Holloway and other gaols, as part of a plan for a more humane prison system. The Home Secretary (Sir Samuel Hoare) is at present inspecting prisons. He has visited Holloway. where he was shown all the departments, particularly the hospital, where there were six newly-born children. The object of the scheme is to cure criminals, not to punish them. It is possible that penal servitude will be abandoned.
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Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22195, 11 September 1937, Page 15
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