WAR AND CRIME.
The annjiali rofport of the Prison Commissioners for England and Wales .shows a very large decrease in the prison population. In the year 1914-15 there were 114,283 prisoners under sentence, but in 1915-16 the number fell to 64,160, presumably because the Army had absorbed a large proportion of the 'criminal population. Serious crime, indeed, was never so infrequent as at', present. One of tho notable effects of the war on the prison population has been that tho receptions are now for the most' part confined to the physically and mentally weak. The percentage of strong, able-bodied men is comparatively small.
Throughout tho year tho manufacture of war stores has been conducted in prisons with unabated vigour. The number of inmates engaged on war work averaged 5000 per day. In spice of the rapid and i:npmedented fall in the prison population, tho output of work was maintained by an extension of the hours of labour, by various emergency regulations calculated to increase the individual output, and • y the keen desire of the prisoners to do their utmost.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 11955, 14 March 1917, Page 4
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