DARTMOOR PRISON.
TO BE GRADUALLY CLOSED. CONVICTS TO BE SENT ABROAD. (Ans. N Z Cable A*»sn). LONDON, November 27. Sir W. Joynson Hicks, who recently toured penal settl ments and prisons, described Dartmoor as a cesspool of i umanity. 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. (Received November 28 at 7.40 p.m.) LONDON, November 27. Sir Joynson Hicks classes as pure imagination the reports that he intends to elose Dartmoor Prison and send the convicts to undeveloped parts of the Empire. He said: “What country would take our delinquents? I am considering the whole future of the penal system, but its reform will take years.
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Grey River Argus, 29 November 1927, Page 5
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