PROPOSED REFORM
WEEK-ENDS IN PRISON “FRAUGHT WITH DIFFICULTIES ” Parliamentary Reporter WELLINGTON, Aug. 20. A proposal that an alteration should be made to the law to provide that offenders should be required to spend their week-ends in prison was by no means novel, stated the Attorneygeneral. Mr Mason, in a written reply circulated in the House of Representatives to-day. He added that it had been closely examined previously, but it was fraught with too many practical difficulties to be capable of adopttion with advantage. In any case, he said, deprivation of week-end liberty was essentially a punitive idea and its adoption would violate the present-day philosophy that a term of imprisonment should be a period of training and reformation. The Minister’s answer was in reply to a question by Mr J. R. Hanan (Oppn., Invercargill), Mr W. H. Fortune (Oppn., Eden), Mr C. L. Carr (Govt., Timaru), and Mr D. M. Rae (Oppn., Parnell), who had asked whether consideration had been given to the question of initiating reforms in the judicial system in order to give the courts wider powers in regard to forms of sentences.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26545, 21 August 1947, Page 6
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