WAIT FOR PRISON VACANCIES.
When 1800 people were summoned at Willesden, England, recently for not having paid their rates, it was stated that the majority of them had no prospect of being able to pay. Brixton, the debtors' prison, is already full, and the authorities will havo to wait for vacancies before they can commit the defaulters. One woman told the magistrate that her husband was already waiting at homo for a vacancy in Brixton, so that lie might bo committed for a previous debt.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21153, 9 April 1932, Page 13 (Supplement)
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85WAIT FOR PRISON VACANCIES. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21153, 9 April 1932, Page 13 (Supplement)
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