MORE HUMANITY
THE PRISON SYSTEM
NEW SCHEME IN BRITAIN
LONDON, September 10,
The "Daily Herald" states that the Government proposes to close the Dartmoor and Pentonville prisons and reform the Holloway and other gaols as part of a plan for a more humane prison system.
The Home Secretary, Sir Samuel Hoare, is at present inspecting the prisons and has visited Holloway. He was shown all the departments, particularly the hospital, where there were six newly-born children.
The object of the scheme is to cure criminals, not to punish them. It is possible that penal servitude will be abandoned.
The Home Secretary slated a month ago that he was working with th? Prison Commissioners on a comprehensive review of the whole field ol prison administration, with the object of preparing an orderly plan of progress on a wide front in the next two or three years.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19370911.2.57
Bibliographic details
Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 63, 11 September 1937, Page 9
Word Count
145MORE HUMANITY Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 63, 11 September 1937, Page 9
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Evening Post. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 New Zealand licence. This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in