PRISONS IN ENGLAND.
CONDITIONS AT DARTMOOR. HOME SECRETARY'S VISIT. (Received November 28. 11.26 p.m.) A. and N.Z. LONDON. Nov. .8. The Home Secretary, Sir William Joyn-soa-Hirks, recently inspected the English penal settlements and prisons. He described the prison for long-term convicts at Princetown, Dartmoor, as being a cesspool of humanity. Re confessed that it was difficult to know what to do with the criminal residuum. The Sunday Express now says the prison in Dartmoor will gradually be closed, and the type* of convicts now imprisoned there will bo sent to some distant undeveloped part of the Empire, where they will lead more useful lives on parole. When this was brought to the notice of Sir William, he said it was pure imagination. What country would take these delinquents? He was, he said, considering the whole future of the penal Bvstem, but its reform would take years.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19806, 29 November 1927, Page 11
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