SOCIETY AND CRIME.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20722, 15 November 1930, Page 12

SOCIETY AND CRIME.

DEVELOPMENT OF PRISONS. TREND OF MODERN METHODS. [by telegraph.—l'RESS association.] WELLINGTON. Friday. Prison development in New Zealand was the subject of an address given by the Controller-General of Prisons, Mr. B. L. Dallard, before the Wellington branch of tho Howard League for Prison Reform, last evening. Mr. Dallard said the idea underlying the right to remove an offender from' the midst of society had given place to the realisation that although, society might be protected while the offender was in prison, he was a greater menace than ever before if he emerged worse than when lie entered, craftier than ever, and embittered by experience, or if he had been hardened by his 'treatment in prison rather than having been socialised in his attitude. The classification of offenders was now recognised as an important fundamental and the general trend was for a decrease in prison population. Greater attention was nt>w being given to the question of after care, and the department had associated with its probation officers voluntary committee workers, to tho extent of several hundred, throughout the country, who av sisted those who had made slips to reestablish themselves as useful units of society.