PRISONS CONFERENCE.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 11 August 1925, Page 9

PRISONS CONFERENCE.

DEALING' WITH OFFENDERS

ADVANCED METHODS TJIMMSD. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT Received Aug. 11, 1.10.p.m. . LONDON, Aug. H. The International Prison Congress has concluded. It adopted a series o resolutions, one of which demandeu, inter alia, that judges should bo acquainted with the character and antecedents of offenders and should have the choice of penalties for prevention and security. Would-be magistrates should be compelled to attend lectures on psychology, sociology, forensic psychiatry and phrenology. Judges should have a full knowledge of prisons. Trials should be divided into two pants and the public .should be excluded from the part dealing with punishment. Other resolutions demanded the classification of prisons, and urged the-desirability of recompensing prisoners for work, the gratuity to be expended iit paying the liability of the prisoner to< the State and his victim. Thie desiliability of the treatment of abnormal dangerous adults in non-penal institutions was urged; also the development of institutions for mental hygiene, the establishment of foster families for convicted children, whose parents were incapable of morally -duoating them. The next quinquennial congress will be held at Prague. — Reuter.