FEWER PRISONERS
THE 1935 RETURNS
iJw!5V^ fourt J een Prisons and State 3Et ! On£ S anl three Borstal institutions in New Zealand as well as twenty-three minor prisons and policethe police which may be ,eeJ?™ to be Prisons for any period (which must not exceed seven days) during which prisoners are detained there undergoing sentence. The daily average^ number of prisoners in conmln 10 « various institutions during 1935 was 1212, a.figure 149, or 10.9 per cent,, below that for 1934 states the report on the Justice Department statistics. . •
Altogether there -were 4159 receptions into the.. various prisons, etc., during the^ year, a decrease of 8.2 per cent, from the previous year. The number ot distinct prisoners received during the year under sentence for criminal offences was 2158, this figure representing a decrease of 9.2 per cent as compared with 1934. The distinct prisoners represent a rate of 13.76 per 10,000 of mean population in 1935, as compared with a corresponding rate of 15.33 in 1934.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 16, 18 July 1936, Page 16
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165FEWER PRISONERS Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 16, 18 July 1936, Page 16
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