PENAL SYSTEM IN N.Z.

Press, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 26856, 8 October 1952, Page 8

PENAL SYSTEM IN N.Z.

U.S. CRIMINOLOGIST’S PRAISE

PUBLIC URGED TO SUPPORT ADMINISTRATION (New Zealand Press Amociation) AUCKLAND, October 7. “New Zeafend's penal system is a good one, although not the best in he world. It needs some tinkering with, but the men who are running it know what they are doing. If they receive public encouragement and confidence they will get somewhere.” This assessment was made by a noted American criminologist, Professor Albert Morris, in Au=“and tonight at the end of a Dominion tO “If you snake use of it, ybu have in New Zealand one of the most intelligent, courageous, and progressive penal administrations,, said Professor Morris. “You have in the Secretary of Justice (Mr S. 1. Barnett) and in his top assistants some very competent men. iney know what is lacking in the system, and they are trying to do something at A. Ut good job was being done in sorting out offenders and in determining, for instance, who were good escape risks and accordingly could be sent to open-type institutions. There must be occasional difficulties, perhaps escapes, but the public must accept the position and stand by tne department. , “Your institutions may be behma the times, but the people who are running them are not, Professor Morris added. . He - will leave tomorrow for Australia, travelling by way of Norf oik Island. - ______