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Offenders Probation Act, 1920. Under section 12 of the Offenders Probation Act, 1920, provision is made enabling any person released under that Act to apply to the Prisons Board for discharge from probation after completion of half the period to which offender was sentenced. During the year thirty requests of this nature were received, and after careful consideration of the facts in each case the Board agreed to the discharge of twenty-one of the applicants.

Table E. —Showing Releases and Discharges, etc., effected each Month.

GENERAL SUMMARY. The following table shows the cases considered year by year by the Board since its inception : —

Table F.

The above table indicates very clearly the growth of the Board's work since it was first established in 1911. In 1912, the first full year of operation, 418 cases were dealt with, while for the year under review (1922) 1,007 prisoners and probationers of all classes came before the Board. This large increase is partly accounted for by the fact that since the year 1917 all hard-labour prisoners have been placed under the Board's jurisdiction, while in 1921 the duties of the Board were further added to by the power given it in that year to grant discharges from probation to persons released under the Offenders Probation Act. The total cases dealt with under these two headings alone numbered 301 during the past year. The further increase that has taken place is to some extent due to the growth

Releasei d on Pn ibation. I )ischarges f roj Prison. Disci jirges from Probation. 1922. 3 o 'p « a 111 w 18 43 ■£ d ,« a | s o p I ■gPo Ph P 5 -'1 So IS CO a d .£ o If . af $ a bl 3 O £> . i, 3 go a a H 9B 5 3 a £ d I o d I •&.g a o st I I « ! S3 £ « - .2 a s s •§ s ■ i •soo & a M O B Total. J anuary February March April May June July August September October November December 4 7 7 4 10 6 6 6 1 2 5 3 1 1 24 9 30 18 25 13 13 11 10 5 27 5 7 2 (i 4 5 5 8 4 7 3 8 1 1 3 1 3 1 1 1 i 1 1 7 1 1 II 26 60 29 42 35 38 26 19 13 74 12 1 4 2 2 1 10 1 1 1 1 3 1 1 12 2 14 1 3 3 6 1 1 1 2 1 1 1 1 Totals 22 65 29 190 60 24* 10 415 * lnclui los one lisohargi from mi >ntal hoi ipital.

Year. Probationers for Discharge from Probation. Totals. Habitual Criminals and Offenders. Reformative Detention. Hard Labour. Crimes Offender Amend- Probament Act. tioners. 1911 .. 1912 .. 1913 .. 1914 .. 1915 .. 1916 .. 1917 .. 1918 .. 1919 .. 1920 .. 1921 .. 1922 .. 65 159 157 117 101 102 95 87 97 74 75 93 105 259 403 332 273 322 329 201 471 467 564 594 14 92 115 75 167 271 • 170 418 560 449 374 424 438 380 701 648 841 1,007 18 32 18 19 17 30 Totals 1,222 4,320 734 87 17 6,410