NO DISCRIMINATION

Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20230, 25 June 1937, Page 6

NO DISCRIMINATION

MOTORISTS IN PRISON. TREATED LIKE OTHER OFFENDERS. MR. DALLARD’S STATEMENT. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Friday. The falsity of the Idea that offenders against the motoring laws are treated better than other prisoners was dispelled in an interview by the Controller of Prisons, Mr. B. L. Dallard. When committed to prison, he said, the classification of motorist offenders was largely according to age and they Just went ‘into the ordinary treatment and ordinary business routine. They got the same diet, wore the same clothing and were required to work just the same as the others—gardening, quarrying, farm work, etc., whatever they were physically capable of. Mr. Dallard said there were no special remissions of sentence. If the sentence was over six months that matter came before the Prisons Board, which could make a recommendation for remission. He said good conduct was determined by the prisoner’s deportment and whether he showed by his manner that he was aware of the extent to which he had transgressed and was making an earnest endeavour to expiate his offence. Mr. Dallard did not subscribe to the idea that there should be a special prison for them. They were offenders against the law and had menaced human 11 fe.