CLOSING OF SMALL GAOLS.
FOR REFORM AND ECONOMY.
[BY TELEGRAPH. —PRESS ASSOCIATION.]
Wellington; Thursday. The Government has decided, on the.recommendation of the Minister for Justico (Dr. Find lay), that the Napier gaol shall be closed. Hon. Dr. Findlay, in speaking to a Post reporter on the suoject, stated that ho had determined to close a number of gaols for various reasons, firstly, because the multiplication of gaols stood in the way of proper classification and reformatory treatment, and, secondly, because some of these.gaols were unnecessary. The cost of maintaining prisoners in them, probably owing to the fact that the prison labour was almost wholly unremunerative, was excessive.
" It is part of my scheme," the Minister continued, "both on the score of proper scientific reformatory treatment and also on tho score of economy, to close such gaols. In some cases this cannot be done until the prison farm is far enough advanced to receive the prisoners from those gaols. In regard to the Napier gaol, the prison labour there is exceptionally unremunerative. For the years 1907, 1908, and 1909 the total annual earnings of each prisoner did not amount to more than £3."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 14345, 15 April 1910, Page 6
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