FLOGGING OF CRIMINALS.
DISCUSSED BY WOMEN. INDETERMINATE SENTENCE SUGGESTED. (Special to Daily Times.) CHRISTCHURCH, March 3. The National Council of Women urges that instead of flogging being ordered m certain cases of assaults more modern methods of penal reform should be tried. At to-day’s meeting Mrs J. Walker (Gisborne) moved as follows: — “That, in view of public opinion being so aroused by certain cases of criminal assault to demand flogging being added to the sentence, this conference strongly protests against this treatment, and advocates the long indeterminate sentence with reformative treatment as being more in line with the best modern methods of penal reform.” Several delegates quoted Sir John Denniston. „ t* Supporting the motion, Miss K. England (Wellington) said that one of the aspects of the question was the terrible effect that the flogging of prisoners had on warders. Sir Uohn Denniston'had said that after he retired a head warder said to him: “There is one thing we shall never forget about you—you have never ordered a flogging. You do not know what it means to us.” The motion was carried.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20039, 4 March 1927, Page 10
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181FLOGGING OF CRIMINALS. Otago Daily Times, Issue 20039, 4 March 1927, Page 10
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