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REFORMATIVE DETENTION.

POWERS OF PRISONS BOARD. RECOMMENDATIONS ACTED ON. [BY TELEGRAPH.—OWN CORRESPONDENT.] WELLINGTON. Thursday. In reply to a question regarding the operation of the reformative detention measures, the Attorney-General, Hon. F. «7. Rolleston, stated that once a man was sent to prison it was not the policy of the Prisons Department to supply the public with any information as to that man's movements while in prison, or as to his subsequent release. "If information of that kind were broadcasted," added the Minister, "it would be most unfair to the prisoner, whom we had hoped to reform, with a view to making him a good and useful citizen afterwards. If the fact were advertised that a man had just been discharged from prison, what chance would he have of making a fresh start ? A sentence of reformative detention is essentially one that is subject to review by the Prisons Board, whose recommendations are invariably acted upon."

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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19453, 8 October 1926, Page 10

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REFORMATIVE DETENTION. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19453, 8 October 1926, Page 10

REFORMATIVE DETENTION. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19453, 8 October 1926, Page 10