PRISONS AND BORSTALS

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19511, 9 June 1933, Page 8

PRISONS AND BORSTALS

' J.P.’S SATISFIED, COMMENT BY MINISTER. By Telegraph—Press Association CHRISTCHURCH, June 8. An assurance that they were perfectly satisfied with the conduct of New Zealand prisons was given to the Minister of Justice (Hon. J. G. Cobbc by a deputation of the Canterbury Justices Association to-day. Mr Cobbe said he was glad to have the Association’s favourable opinions. “One constant complaint is that we don't run our prisons right,” said the Minister. “You have an organisation in New Zealand that keeps me well posted about our deficiencies. They seem to think that all the prisoners should be placed on their honour. If they knew prisoners as well as they are known by those in charge of them, perhaps they would not be so keen on this idea, but there is something in some of their representations, and I think that if we had more money rather more might be done than we do at present. At the same time, I think our prisons and Borstal institutes are well conducted. We have been told that our Borstals are on decidedly wrong lines, but according to men who ought to know, and do know, they are very good.”