REFORMATIVE TREATMENT
ANOMALY IN PROCEDURE. COMMENT BY MAGISTRATE. [BY TELEGRAPH. —OWN CORRESPONDENT. ] CHRISTCHURCH. Thursday. " It seems an anomaly that the authorities should send a man to gaol to herd with criminals and then try to reform him afterwards," said Mr. H. Y. Widdowson, S.M., this morning in the course of his reply to speeches made at a farewell function on his retirement from the Bench. Mr. Widdowson could not understand why in some Courts a term of imprisonment was given, followed by a term of reformative detention. He personally had never passed such a sentence. The Court should ascertain whether the case was one for reformative detention, and if so, that alone should be given.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19471, 29 October 1926, Page 12
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