PRISONS AND ASYLUMS
Sir, —Your correspondent "Cygnet" strikes the right note in suggesting that reliance cannot be placed on superficial visits to our prisons. I am afraid that will not tell us, and in particular the Government, why it is that our figures of reconvicted persons inside our prisons are constantly on the upgrade, and now reach nearly 70 per cent, or two out of every three. If our methods of reformative detention are really on sound lines this should not bo so, and yet I understand that our present Con-troller-General of Prisons has stated that long terms of incarceration are undesirable. Lack of real organised after-care is no doubt responsible to some extent, but the failure of Cabinet to place our penal system on a much better basis than it is at present seems appalling to me. Penalty.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22618, 5 January 1937, Page 13
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