HABITUAL CRIMINALS.
Sir,ln view of the apparently changed attitude of the Government in connection with the Habitual Criminals Bill, is it . too much to ask the real meaning underlying the Attorney-GeneraL's motion to substitute tht' word "home" for " reformatory in the measure now before Parliament. Has the idea of a reformatory ' been abandoned. If so, then why in the name of great goodness gracious proceed* with the measure at all. If, on the contrary, it is intended to utilise the ■. homes of the Salvation Army for reformatory purposes, then indeed' will our last state be worse than the first.. _ The handing over of prisoners to the Salvation Army will be a wrong to the men themselves, and a gross caricature of the methods advocated by penologists, endorsed as they are both by science and statistics. A.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13305, 11 October 1906, Page 7
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