BORSTAL TREATMENT
UNDER. WRONG DEPARTMENT
NOT DIFFERENT FROM PRISON (Press Association) DUNEDIN, Oct 13 The Rev. Andrew .Baxter of Gladstone referred at the Anglican Synod to the treatment of inmates ot the Borstal institution at Invercargill. He said thq institution wn Rl under the wrong department. The officers were prison-trained men. Whereas a man was sentenced to three months for the theft of a watch, a hoy, for the same offence, was sentenced to three years’ Borstal detention, ho cause the magistrate thought it was a training ,'school, hut really they were sentencing boys to three years in prison. In the caso of a hoy given solitary confinement, everything was taken [from liis cell in the morning except a wire mattress and a Bible. That was all ho had. till 10 p.m. He must learn to hate the Bible. The cells were badly ventilated, with no winter 'heating. This form of puishment might last from ono to six days. It was barbarous, to treat hoys so. Tile ispeaker stated that he had been plainly told that • a chaplain would n°t be appointed. It was resolved to appoint a commissioner to report on tho need for better spiritual ministration. in Government institutions.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXXIII, Issue 12075, 14 October 1933, Page 5
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