AMERICA’S CRIMINALS

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 16 January 1926, Page 5

AMERICA’S CRIMINALS

A YOUTHFUL LOT. PRISON COMMISSION’S REPORT. STIGKEs- NOTE GE AL. ARAL BY CABLE-PRESS ASSOCIATION—GOP YRIGU- 1 ' Received Jan. 16, i 1.26 a.m. NEW YORK, Jan. 10. The New York Sate Prison Commissioner. following on a survey ol the year’s -statistics, . declares that an alarming situation exists. It asserts that the criminals of America- to-day are ids youths, pointing out that w.ieteas the prison population -twelve years ago was composed ol well-known wrong-doers, and older men. die entire population ot The To-mbs prison to-daj consists of men under tliiity and hoys, of whom iaige numbers were between -sixteen and twenty years oi age. The report says: ‘‘Conversation* gave The impression that these do not possess -atough, sordid nature, most being Hie ordinary type seen about the streets. Very few seemed to realise their desperate plight, the .seriousness of the crimes committed or the outlook bn their future lives. ’ The commission urges the establishment of a foundation for studying' the localities and homes from which those youths come, and advocate* an organised attempt to improve their surroundings and the influence#* which are driving them to crime, also the building oi more accomodation which would obviate herding young boy* with hardened criminals. —Aus.-N.Z. Gable Assn.