HOT FOR PRISONERS

Evening Star, Issue 19408, 17 November 1926, Page 11

HOT FOR PRISONERS

AUCKLAND HOSPITAL BOARD'S STAND ADMISSION TO INFIRMARY REFUSED ;■ ■' [Pes. United Press Association.] AUCKLAND, November 16. Objection to an application by the Controller-General or Prisons for consent to admission to Auckland Infirmary of two prisoners, one aged eighty and the other seventy-one, was voiced by the Hospital Board to-night. The board had previously declined to admit the elder prisoner, who was said to be in prison tor a sexual offence. Renewed application was made on humanitarian grounds, as the prisoner • was said to have reached a state of senility, although not bad nongh tor amenta! institution, to which endeavors had been made to send him. The other prisoner was at present in prison at Wanganui. He was due for release shortly, and it was suggested that the infirmary authorities might care for him in the evening of his days. Mr W. Wallace, chairman of the board, moved that the board adhere to its previous decision, and decline to aqcede to the requests. ‘ The infirmary was not a place for criminals. It was the duty of the Government to care for aged and infirm prisoners, and it must not be allowed to foist them on to th© ratepayers of Auckland. He was quite sure, too, that the other old people in the home would resent the admission of men from the prisons. The motion was carried.