PRISONERS' SENTENCES
HOW REMISSIONS ARE GAINED Doubt appears to exist in the minds of the general public as to the allowance given for good conduct in the case of a prisoner serving a term of imprisonment. The position is that when a prisoner has served half his sentence he has the right, providing his conduct has been exemplary, to apply to the Prisons Board to review his case as a preliminary to his release on license. In the event of the Board agreeing to do so, it first of all goes thoroughly into the circumstances of the case, and, before recommending the prisoner's release, makes a searching investigation into what means he will have when he is freed, where he is going, and what he proposes to do. Allowing that the results of the investigation are satisfactory-,' be is then set free, the period of hi's liberty depending on his good b< •'aviour or otherwise. Should a prisoner express a wish,to go to another country on his release, the inquiries into his ability to pay his fare out ..of New Zealand and his future means of livelihood are equally strict, and if the Board finally allows him to go'his ticket is paid for by the authorities out of the funds at his disposal, affd he is released only in time to jallow him,to be placed on the vessel before, it sails.
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Waipa Post, Volume 42, Issue 3314, 25 June 1931, Page 6
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231PRISONERS' SENTENCES Waipa Post, Volume 42, Issue 3314, 25 June 1931, Page 6
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