PRISONERS AID SOCIETY. TO THE EDITOR.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXVII, Issue 4402, 4 October 1871, Page 5

PRISONERS AID SOCIETY. TO THE EDITOR.

wfXKiOt zeUuuQ dbnxevtiic* in. thi» provuibe wo ! inaifc'be »»i{s6«d Wi® ii 1 ' ikf nffiwiufc au<3 a«*titufcion > -- 1 Tf]iicH Compel theM to~f»ll6w J;li«ir «vii o«^M» l M may bo ebnirtdered the, bMo v iin Moifc5%f/<&elilarge numtifiotttring xrfi^»feJBrit«inj «ndttliwef»r»to *. parUwfj^ilk ituia fair to bl»momoa9n)y, 1: iw f»»e of yanr, Wycorr br 8p »iv«rtiswn«atii , forj iaqaalfh domeitics, knd none to .beoTitauied; while, on the other h*riA, d»i]y 'gurls *i-6 6hftr ff ed at' our police coart*; «nd 5 aaunt; through ear ttraeta pnd r p}iu)o» of >omti8ements. . iEtridently »U thesQigirta - cQnld get sitaationB if they yfaret, vnUxag tq jyoylq^.bufc it would app^»r they, prefer the wiyi<«f .ain.^.But vfanb we.da xe< quire for both men apd vromen i| andoubledly a 'Prisoners' Aid Society to asBist the penitent pruionei*, niile d/f exhale, wlfen .'they, leaV«' the pnadi; .withclothes— »' little Wdy »id to "aVoii'temptatibnJaud t6 obtain situations in the country, or out of. the reach of their ao^oinpKooB and haunti > ' ©f • ill , fame. What now ifc the positibn of w person when he leare* the prison ? f Generally penniless ; ;wi1fhoutnnanB, / w|thput fiends, andniuaUy looked uppnjwilth ecorp, theohanoea are that jthe^terate,]^ Jea^t, o(both texes return, ite their old haunts^ as soon as they leave the Ipriibn wall* i'kkaj finding it diffioult for 1 one ■who hftsi left a : prison 'to obtain a situAtdon, jwith little enodaragemtnt ,to rea'iit temptaitioa, soon find tb.4tnsblyes again, in the dock, ! only to revisit, the praon. Such tecietiej are, 'commottinEn^lfmd, and can ner'erbe'eomtoo soon. I can only lay I shall be very pleased to be- a subionber to such, and I am sure it would commend itatlf to all denominations.'— I am,;*o.,' j Maonum Bonvm,