GRATIFYING DECLINE
PRISON POPULATION HALVED NOT ENOUGH FOR INSTITUTE INDUSTRIES [Per United Press Association.] WELLINGTON, April 9. “ This is one State department where a diminution in business is a criterion of success,” said Mr B. L. Dallard, Controller .of Prisons, at the annual meeting of the women’s branch of the New Zealand Borstal Association, when referring to the fact that the prison population at present was lower than for several years. Mr Dallard said that the total number of inmates was a shade over 800—a few years ago it had been between 1,500 and - 1,600. The authorities were finding it difficult to carry on the prison industries with the smaller total of inmates. The Minister of Justice (the Hon. H. G. R. Mason) expressed pleasure at the decline in the prison population. He emphasised the importance of caring for prisoners when they left institutions after serving a sentence. He commended the women’s branch of the Borstal Association for its efforts in this connection. Whatever was done in the prisons themselves in restoring the inmates to good citizenship was relatively nothing to the importance of caring for them at the moment when, they stepped out as free men and women from the gaols and Borstal institutions.
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Evening Star, Issue 22618, 9 April 1937, Page 3
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205GRATIFYING DECLINE Evening Star, Issue 22618, 9 April 1937, Page 3
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