War Helps To Fill N.S. Wales Gaols
(Rec. 12.30 p.m.) SYDNEY This Day. More than 37 per cent of the prisoners in New South Wales gaols at June 30 last were under 25 years of age and these were the most difficult prisoners to handle. This is stated in a report of the State Deputy-Controller of Prisons (Mr L. C. Nott). The report reveals that New South Wales had 1703 prisoners, compared with 1610 in the previous year. Last year 796 prisoners, 21 years of age and under 25, were admitted to gaol compared with 705 in the previous year. Conditions caused by the war, said Mr Nott, had a marked influence on the increase in the number of young prisoners. So far as young women were concerned, the presence, particularly in the metropolitan area, of many servicemen, had given young girls an opportunity of obtaining, by immoral living, more money than they could have earned otherwise.
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Northern Advocate, 14 March 1944, Page 3
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