Saw Abolition of the Treadmill
NOTED PRISON OFFICIAL PASSES. (British Official Wireless.) Received Wednesday, 7.30 p.m. RUGBY, Aug. 20. Tho newspapers pay tributes to the work of Sir Evelyn Ruggles Brise. chairman of the Prison Commission from 1805 to 1921 and president of the International Prison Commission in 1010, who died on Sunday, aged 77. Sir Ruggles Brise was associated with ninny reforms in prison administration which attracted attention and ennilu tion in foreign countries, including the establishment of tho Borstal system method of prevention, 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 Times, Volume 60, Issue 197, 22 August 1935, Page 6
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