PRISON REFORMER.
LATE SIR E. It. BRISE. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, Aug. 20. The newspapers pay tributes to the work of Sir Evelyn Ruggles Brise, chaiman of the Prison Commission from 1895 to 1921, and president of tile International Prison Commission of 1910, who died on Sunday, aged 77. Sir Evelyn Ruggles Brise was associated with many reforms in prison administration, which attracted attention and emulation in foreign countries, including the establishment of the Borstal system method of preventive detention and instruction for prisoners in useful trades. The early days of his administration saw the final abolition of the treadmill.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 226, 22 August 1935, Page 7
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100PRISON REFORMER. Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 226, 22 August 1935, Page 7
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