S. E. BAUME.
RELEASED FROM PRISON. ATTORNEY-GENERAL '8 COMMENTS. WELLINGTON, October 7. Considerable comment has been evoked by the release from prison of Sidney Erne Baume, whose case excited great attention when it was before the courts some months ago. In reply to a question as to the operation of reformative detention measures, the AttorneyGeneral (the Hon. F. J. Rojleston) said that once a man was sent to gaol, it the policy of the Prisons Department to supply the public with any information as to that man’s movements while in prison, or as to his subsequent release. If information of that kind were broadcasted, it would be most unfair to the prisoner whom it was hoped to reform with a view to making him a good and useful citizen afterwards. If the fact were advertised that a man had just been discharged from prison, what chance would he have of making a fresh start? A sentence of reformative detention was essentially one which was subject to review by the Prisons Board, whose recommendations invariably were acted upon.—(P.A.).
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Wairarapa Age, 8 October 1926, Page 5
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177S. E. BAUME. Wairarapa Age, 8 October 1926, Page 5
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