REFORMATIVE SENTENCES
WHAT DO THEY IMPLY? (By Telegraph. Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, Friday. Dviririg the course of his remarks when replying- to the tributes paid him on his retirement from the magis-: tracy, Mr -H. Y. . Widdowson, S.M:,> said that it had always seemed to him an anomaly’ to give a prisoner a term of imprisonment to'be followed by a period of • reformative detention, which meant sending a man to gaol to herd with criminals and then trying to reform him afterwards. Personally he h'ad ndver passed such a sentence and he considered that if a case were one for reformative detention that alone should be given.
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Waipa Post, Volume 32, Issue 1928, 30 October 1926, Page 5
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