PRISONS AND CRIMINALS.
WANG AN UI, May 25.
The treatment of prisoners and New Zealand's prison system generally were subjects of interesting remarks by Sir Robert Stout when addressing the grand jury at the Supreme Court to-day. Referring to the recommendation by an Auckland jury that flogging be administered to those guilty of sexual offences. Sir Robert Stout said he considered flogging a brutalising method, and only suitable for brutal types. The responsibility _ did not rest with the judges but on juries, who should be careful in the administration of justice to see that feelings of mercy did not influence them to acquit where the evidence was clear. If they sternly, but humanely, carry out their duties, crime would decline in their district. If it is possible to get people to realise that prison was not a place of honour, but a corrective hospital, then would they realise the task before them in trying to reduce crime.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3455, 1 June 1920, Page 44
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