LIFE IN PRISON
REFORMS IN ENGLAND CONCESSIONS TO OFFENDERS LONDON*, July 2s The Home Secretary, Sir Samuel Hoare, in a speech in the House if Commons to-day, announced drastic changes to ameliorate the lot of prisoners and keep them in closer touch with the outside world. Henceforward prisoners would be allowed to interview friends in their civilian clothes and mix together on Saturday afternoons in order to break down the evil of too great solitude. Certain convicts would be transferred to local prisons to enable them to keep in closer touch with their families. Women prisoners would have better looking and better fitting clothes so as to increase their self-respect. Both long and short-term prisoners would be paid wages'and given further oportunities of physical training and reading. Recreation would also include cinemas.
The programme of reconstruction of obsolete prisons included the destruction of famous Pentonville prison.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23103, 30 July 1938, Page 14
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