DEALING WITH BANDITS
There is one thing we have not done (writes Mr Jack Hayes, the former policeman M.P., in the Police Review), segregate some of these undesirable gentry, when caught, from their fellows for life, not perhaps under Dartmoor or Parkhurst circumstances, but most certainly in complete isolation from the organised society upon which they preyed. There would be no talk about " doing a stretch " and returning to their old habits. They would think in terms of a "living isolation," a thing much more terrible to the bandit than the "cat" or "a stretch," which, after all, is a punishment that comes to an end. The point is, avoid any kind of glamour for the lawless. Make it what it is, a drab, sordid business, out of which not even a temporary sensational publicity can emerge.
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Waipa Post, Volume 45, Issue 3210, 30 July 1932, Page 6
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