DARTMOOR PRISON.
“CESSPOOL OF HUMANITY.”
LONDON, Nov. 27. Sir W. Joynson Hicks, who recently made a tour of the penal settlements and prisons, described Dartmoor as the cesspool of humanity. He confessed that it was difficult to know wliat to do with the criminal residium. 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 a more useful life on parole.—A. and N.Z. cable.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVII, Issue 306, 28 November 1927, Page 7
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81DARTMOOR PRISON. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVII, Issue 306, 28 November 1927, Page 7
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