PRISONS BOARD’S REPORT
EMPLOYMENT OF INMATES AFTER RELEASE 'From Our Parliamentary Reporter) WELLINGTON, July 28. Prisoners and inmates of other penal institutions in New Zealand are not uncommonly offered employment before they are released from custody, says the annual report of the Prisons Board. With a continued shortage of labour in the community the obtaining of full and remunerative employment on release presents little or no difficulty to most inmates. One of the prolific causes of crime among juveniles and adolescents is want of industry, the report says. Thriftlessness is another substantial factor. By its decisions and advice the board does all it can to encourage inmates to seek and retain steady employment, and the results are encouraging. the report says. The board notes, however, that there is a great lack of thrift and indifference ”to retention of employment among adolescents sent to reformatory institutions. That, it says, indicates a lack of training, allied to insistence on having pleasure at any cost, and conduces markedly to the commission of crime.
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Press, Volume XC, Issue 27414, 29 July 1954, Page 12
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