FIFTY YEARS AGO
PRISON SYSTEM DEFENDED t
Complaints against the alleged barbarity of tlie prison system in New Zealand 50 years ago were refuted in the report presented to the House of Representatives by the inspector of prisons. The following appeared in the New Zealand Herald of August 7, 1889: — "Tho report of the inspector of prisons was laid on the table to-day and is a very satisfactory document. Colonel Hume says tho prison system as now established is better and milder than the prisoners deserve and reports about its brutality aro untrue. The system of inspection now in vogue entirely explodes all fabricated .tales of cruelties and wrongs inflicted on prisoners. Tno large increase in the average of prisoners is due to drunkards and and infirm persons being sent to gaol as vagrants instead of to refuges.-This, he savs, is a blot on our administration."'
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23418, 7 August 1939, Page 6
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146FIFTY YEARS AGO New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23418, 7 August 1939, Page 6
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