JUDGE HARVEY ON CLASSIFICATION OF PRISONERS.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume I, Issue 25, 18 October 1873, Page 12

JUDGE HARVEY ON CLASSIFICATION OF PRISONERS.

Ik a recent charge to the Grand Jury of Westland, Judge Harvey made the following remarks on the necessity for enablin* a proper system of classification to be carried out in the gaols of the colony He said :— " I can't help thinking that it is still our duty to raise ow voices against the inconsistency of spending money— l feel I might almost saj lavishly — in the cause of education, and at the same tuns withholding the comparatively moderate sum required to preserve a large portion of the youth of the colony from contamination. We are fully alive to the danger of allowing diseased cattle in contact with those that are sound, but we grudge the expense of saving our youth from contact with moral disease of th* worst possible type, and yet we delude ourselves by passing an act for enforcing prison discipline and enjoining careful classification, forgetting that such classiacatiou cannot be effected in the gaols of the colony as they exist at present."