NO FAVOURED TREATMENT

Evening Star, Issue 22684, 25 June 1937, Page 8

NO FAVOURED TREATMENT

MOTORING OFFENDERS ORDINARY PRISONERS FALSE IMPRESSION REMOVED (Per United Press Association.] WELLINGTON, June 25. Tho falsity of the idea that offenders against tho motoring laws are treated better than other prisoners was dispelled in an interview 7 by the Controller of Prisons, Mr Dallard. When committed to prison, he said, their classification was largely according to age, and they just went into the ordinary treatment of the ordinary business routine, got the same diet, wore tho same clothing, and were required to work just the same as others —at gardening, quarrying, farm work, etc.—whatever they were physically capable of. Mr Dallard said there were no special remissions of sentence. If a sentence was over six months that matter came before the Prisons Board, which could make a recommendation for remission. He said good conduct was determined by the prisoner’s deportment and whether he shelved by his manner that ho was aware of the extent to which he had transgressed and was making an earnest endeavour to expiate his offence. Mr Dallard did not subscribe to the idea that there should bo a special prison, for them; they were offenders against the law and had menaced human life.