DARTMOOR PRISON
“CESSPOOL OF HUMANITY"
CONY J CIS TO RE DEPORTED ON
PARADE,
Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright,
LONDON, November 27. (Received November 28, at 10.5 a.m.) Sir W. Joynsou-Hicks, who recently tourer! the penal settlements and prisons, described Dartmoor as a cesspool of humanity. He confessed it difficult to know what to do with tho criminal rcsidnm.
Tho ‘Sunday Express’ now allinns that Dartmoor’will gradually he closed, and the convicts of this type sent to some distant undeveloped part of the Empire to lead more useful lives on parole,
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Evening Star, Issue 19725, 28 November 1927, Page 4
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88DARTMOOR PRISON Evening Star, Issue 19725, 28 November 1927, Page 4
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