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New Zealand Steps Commended ENCOURAGING TRENDS NOTED (From Our Parliamentary Reporter) WELLINGTON, August 9. “It would be unrealistic to expect that there will be nc set-backs, but provided we can recruit and retain sufficient prison officers of quality, we can face the future with reasoned confidence,” said the Secretary of Justice (Mr S. T. Barnett), in his annual report, presented today to the House of Representatives. The Criminal Justice Act, he said, had introduced a new era in penal treatment in Ne>’’ Zealand. A clear directive had been given as. to policy, and the department had been given better opportunities to achieve its objective of reducing the amount of recidivism. Three encouraging trends were shown in prison figures for 1954, said Mr Barnett. The ratio of prisoners to each 10.000 of the general population showed a slight decrease; there had been a decrease in the number of sexual offenders imprisoned; and the number of Maori offenders imprisoned had also declined. Probation continued to be used more widely.
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Press, Volume XCII, Issue 27733, 10 August 1955, Page 14
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