CLASSES IN GAOL.
PRISONERS’ CHANCE TO LEARN. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright United Service. (Received May 2, 9.80 a.m.) LONDON, May 1. The Prison Commisioners have inaugurated classes in French, shorthand, book-keeping, engineering and Spanish at Maidstone Gaol. The classes were attended voluntarily by prisoners in their leisure time. This reform follows the abolition of the board arrow garb, and the supply of wash-stands and mirrors in cells.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17030, 2 May 1923, Page 6
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66CLASSES IN GAOL. Star (Christchurch), Issue 17030, 2 May 1923, Page 6
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