JUVENILE OFFENDERS
FAR-REACHING PROPOSAL.
A very far-reaching proposal has been put forward by the New South Wales Minister of Education, Mr Drummond. Mr Drummond's suggestion is that persons up to 21 years who get into trouble with the police shall be ! tor/>ated as juvenild, offenders, and that magistrates shall be empowered, if they are found guilty, to send them to training schools, instead of gaol.
Until 1924, all girls and youths over all persons up to 21 years who get into imprisonment, but in that year the age was raised to 18 years, with the result that since then nearly 550 persons who would have been sent to gaol have been dealt with by child welfare, 16 falling foul of the la wwere liable. If both sexes are now to be regarded as children until they are 21, and sent to institutions when they need it instead of to prison, those institutions will rapidly become cfrowded (*ulj. Mr Drummond has a sympathetic listener in Mr J. R. Lee, Minister of Justice.
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Waipa Post, Volume 36, Issue 2145, 17 April 1928, Page 2
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