NIHIL SINE LABORE.
HOW TO TREAT CRIMINALS
(Bt Telephaph.) (FBO* OCB PARI.!' VKNTAhT RETOBTEB ) . WELLINGTON. Sept. 5. \ cry important and radical proposals for reformatory purjiOMs are made by tho I n«on» Board m tiieir annual report prenniod to Parliament to day. The dimming up of most interest is this: The Board is of opinion that the basis of all reformatory treatment must !«e labour. The motto should Ik> "nihil sine labore."' To carry out this programme there would •H«xl to be warder-in-tructors specially skiJ'*l ,n 'work in which tho prisoners would engaged. Proper workshops would be •leoessnry. iiermitting disciplinary cupervision apart from the instruction.' and the Prisoners ought, to bo allowed some payment for work efficiently don<\ If this' wero i°*i°" 3 j ir>> ' °f keep and «irvei!lancw deduced, ilie balance could bo banked tgain»t discharge. or. if there bo !epend<nts outside (wives and families) some jxirtion of tho earnings -hould be expended in supj>orting them. Ih:s svptein is working sucdSsfullv in other oußtiics. and should Ik* adopted if there s to b,> effective reformative treatment in this countrv.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 9590, 6 September 1913, Page 5
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179NIHIL SINE LABORE. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 9590, 6 September 1913, Page 5
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