DARTMOOR PRISON
HOME SECRETARY SHOCKED.
(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.)
LONDON, November 27.
Sir W. Joynsdn Hicks, who recently toured penal settlements and prisons, dqscribed Dartmoor as a cesspool of humanity. He confessed it difficult to know what to do with the criminal residuum.
The “Sunday Express” now affirms that Dartmoor will gradually be closed and convicts of this type sent to some distant undeveloped part of the Empire to lead more useful lives on parole.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 28 November 1927, Page 5
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