GAOL WEDDINGS

Stratford Evening Post, Volume I, Issue 497, 20 July 1932, Page 5

GAOL WEDDINGS

TWO IN VICTORIA IN EIGHT YEARS MELBOURNE, July 15— Officials of the Penal Department said to-day that in the last two years permission had been given for two prisoners to be married while serving sentences at Pentridge. Both prisoners had since been discharged and were now living happily. On Tuesday a prisoner was permitted to leave Parramatta gaol for an hour under the guardianship of two warders to be married in a Catholic church.

The Inspector-General of Prisons in Victoria. (Mr. .1. Akerroyd) said to-day that only yesterday he had received an application for a young woman to no married to a prise nor, but he had refused the request in the womans own interest. Considered on Merits “It is not uncommon,” he said, “for applications of this kind to he made by relatives of young people who have been imprisoned or by the voting people themselves, and every case is considered on its merits. Such applications are usually made shortly after a prisoner has been sentenced. “If a prisoner is young in crime and shows a genuine tendency to reform and gives some guarantee that his wife will not suffer unduly, the marriage is sanctioned. If this is not likely, the woman is usually persuaded to abandon the idea of marriage in her own interests. The law does not permit ns to allow a prisoner out so that he can be married.”