CONVICTS' NEWSPAPER
The latest in newspapers is an attractive little yellow production of four pages entitled "The Weekly News Sheet" It is now being circulated arhong the prisons m Britain and supplants the old custom of the chaplain leading extracts from the newspapers after the Sunday morning service The paper is printed by the convicts-in Maidstone Gaol at a small printing-press installed in the establishment, but it is not deemed advisable Hd entrust them'with the.editorial work, this is left in the hands of the prison commissioners. No news appears about crime and sex- Otherwise, as its name implies the paper summarises the week's events, including the Saturday football scores. The first .issue was packed ;with such odd items as an article on" the ! Mersey Tunnel and the; diverting information for convicts that air taxis may now be hired at Croydbn ■': for- 3d a mile. The paper is designed to enliven Sundays, in gaol.
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Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 34, 9 February 1935, Page 15
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153CONVICTS' NEWSPAPER Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 34, 9 February 1935, Page 15
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