“BILL SYKES, 8.A.”
PRISON HALLS OF LEARNING. LONDON, May 1. ~ “Stone walls do not a prison make hut rather a school. Such seems to he the-view of the Prison Commissioners in England, as they inaugurated classes in French, shorthand, .bookkeeping, engineering, and Spanish in Maidstone Gaol. , The classes arc well attended, and voluntarily held in the prisoners spare time. This in addition to the abolition ol the broad arrow garb and a supply of washstands and mirrors in the cells, suggests “minds innocent and Quiet will readily seek out scuh a hermitage.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LVIII, Issue 9690, 11 May 1923, Page 5
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