CENSUS OF PRISONERS

Grey River Argus, 17 May 1938, Page 4

CENSUS OF PRISONERS

There have been investigations already carried out by the International Penal and Penitentiary Commission in nearly ninety countries for the making of a'census complete so far as practicable of the world’s prison population. “The results up to the present indicate that the number of prisoners in Great Britain and Ireland is less In proportion than in any country m the world. The Free State, with less than 1 iwenty prisoners to every 100,000 of the population, has the lowest proportion. The highest in the United Kingdom is Northern Ireland with 30.9 to the same figure of population. England and Wales’s proportion is 29.9, Scotland’s is 26.7 Germany’s tio, seemingly without counting thdk kept in concentration camps, is shown ' to be close upon 157. Esthonia is still' higher. 275. Other proportions are;—- j Bulgaria 152, Poland 150, Lithuania 161 ! , and Latvia 212, A