WOMEN PRISONERS

Dominion, Volume 25, Issue 171, 15 April 1932, Page 13

WOMEN PRISONERS

Valuable Work Done BORSTAL ASSOCIATION Encouraging reports of the Women’s Borstal Association were presented at the annual meeting of the association last night, at which Sir James Allen presided. Mr. B. L. Dallard, Control-ler-General of Prisons, said lie could not speak too highly of the splendid public work done by members of the association, which was greatly appreciated by the department. A review of the work at Point Halswell prison showed that the cash value of the labour of girls, outside their own institutional needs, was £l5OO a year, which included £lOOO for laundry work for Government departments, £52 for eggs and poultry, and £226 for making shirts. They also did the mending for the prison. The chairman commended the work of the association, saying that It was after the girls had left the institution that they became the special care of the association. He was sure the public would support such work when it knew what was being achieved. A. letter from Captain M. 8. Galloway, secretary of the Red Cross Society, expressed thanks to the girls at Point Halswell for gifts of needlework and knitting. Mr. Dallard said the good results of the work done was shown by the fact that so few girls appeared before the court again after being discharged, and during the past year not a siugle girl had been ■ recalled. Since 1924 there had been 151 girls committed to the institution, of whom 100 bad been released. Of these, only 11 had again appeared before the court.