BORSTAL INSTITUTION.
re-drafting of inmates,
(By Telegraph —Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Friday.
Now that last session’s legislation has enabled Invercargill prison to bo used au a Borstal institution, inmates between 20 and 25 will be drafted to Waikeria. in the Waikato, those from i f G to 20 to Invercargill, and females to the new prison at Wellington. The great majority of the Borstal inmates arc employed on agricultural work, but owing to the discovery that many youthful prisoners apparently have never ■'been educated, ordinary teachers arc to be attached to these institutions.
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Waikato Times, Volume 99, Issue 16654, 20 November 1925, Page 5
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