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Work Of Prisons “Hampered” “This type of offender greatly burdens the space and time of the courts.” said Mr Raymond Ferner, S.M.. in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday after he had sentenced a man to imprisonment for theft. “They also greatly hamper the constructive work of the prisons.
“The magistrates first meet these persons in the Children’s Courts They are not so defective mentally as to be certifiable. They often have no marked criminal tendencies, but drift into the company of criminals. i
“Such persons can generally be kept happy and industrious in an institution. We know that such persons are often reluctant to be! released from an institution at the end of their sentences, and they J soon drift back again,” he said. j “If institutions could be pro-! vided for the detention of these persons, with machinery for their errployment, much crime would be prevented and much time would l be saved.” j
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Press, Volume XCVI, Issue 28414, 22 October 1957, Page 3
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