WOMEN PRISONERS' WELFARE GROUP

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 271, 10 August 1920, Page 6

WOMEN PRISONERS' WELFARE GROUP

A meeting of the Women Prisoners' Welfare Group of the Women's National Council was held in the Stock Exchnngo Buildings yesterday afternoon. Mrs. Henderson presided.

A report from Miss Hopkinson, late secretary of the Dunedin Prison Eefonm Lengue, who recently visited America, was read, in the course of which she described the work that was being done in' the Washington State ■ Reformatory with regard to men, women, and child delinquents, This reformative work was started about twenty years ago by one of the leading lawyers in the State, and has met with wonderful success.

The secretary stated that the Prisons Comptroller had given leave for a lantern entertainment, to be given next month to the women prisoners in tho Wellington Terrace Gaol. Several donations of money were reported as having been made, totalling £1 10s. This amount will be set aside chiefly for the provision of entertainments for iho women prisoners. It was stated at the meeting' that Nur6c Everitt, who recently left on a visit to Sydney, has been asked to report to the group upon the system of prison welfare work followed in New South Wales, also unon child welfare woTk.