PURPOSE OF PRISONS
JUSTICE’S OPINION “TO PRESERVE ORDER AND DECENCY” “These cases are too common and I have a duty to the public,” said his Honour, Mr. Justice Herdman, at the Supreme Court yesterday afternoon, when he sentenced Alexander Paton, aged 62, to three years’ imprisonment for indecent assault on a child. Mr. Adams, who appeared for the prisoner, said he had never been in trouble before, and asked that effect be given to the jvfy’s recommendation for mercy. “Some people,” said his Honour, “think that prisons shoulr not exist and that a pervert should be treated as a hospital patient. I don’t hold that view. Prisons exist to keep order and preserve decency in the community.”
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 664, 16 May 1929, Page 6
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