REFORMING YOUNG CRIMINALS.
A cablegram a few days ago stated that Mr Herbert Gladstone's Prevention of Crime Bill, which was read a first time in the House of Commons, proposed the permanent establishment of Borstal institutions to reform young offenders. How to deal with young criminals has been a perplexing problem in the Old Country. In 1R95 a Committee on Prisons went fully into the matter and submitted a report to the House of Commons, in which it was stated that "under the present system numbers of young prisoners come out of prison in a condition as bad, or worse, than that in which they went in." Nothing was done in the matter, however, until 1902, ,when the suggestions of reform contained in that rqport were carried into effect at Borstal Prison, near Rochester. The system aims at caving the young offender from a career of cirime by combining deterrent effect with a radical cure/ It may be described as an advanced reformatory.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9105, 3 June 1908, Page 4
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163REFORMING YOUNG CRIMINALS. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9105, 3 June 1908, Page 4
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