HOMOSEXUAL CLINIC
Suggestion To Chaplains (N.Z. Press Association) AUCKLAND, Sept. 10. A type of clinic that "’a* neither a prison nor a hospital, where homesexual offenders could be treated, was suggested at the Catholic prison chaplains’ conference in Auckland today. The Rev. Father M. Burning, chaplain at Wi Tako prison, Trentham, told the conference he had spent some time . studying homosexuality. “There is a real need for a half-way house, not a prison or hospital, but a clinic of sorts, where these people can be treated properly,” he said. “It is not right to take a person who has been subjected to these tendencies since a young boy and place him in the all male environment of a prison.” Father Burning said he did not doubt that the Justice Department was doing all possible to overcome this problem.
“But,” he said, “we should have a place where everything can be done to make them worth-while members of the community.”
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Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30543, 11 September 1964, Page 3
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