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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, JANUARY 7. 1947.
Tortworth Court
ON the 400-acre parkland estate of
INSIDE THE PRISON WITHOUT BARS
of whom there are ten, tricksters. fire-raisers, men found guilty of rape, and other major crimes
The governor's task is to groom these men for good citizenship when released, and to do it by kindness. He calls them "my boys." Ile regards them as men who are not inherently criminal, but have just "#lipped. Ench has been judged by experts to be capable of reform.
Warders are instructed to soften the harsh discipline they knew at other prisons and to treat the con- vlets as men deserving of sympathy.
Tortworth is a buited camp on the estate of the Earl of Duele in the heart of the famed Berkeley Hunt country between Bristol and Glou- cester,
an car at Falfeld, Gloucester, It was requisitioned from the earl a convict prison without bars for wartime use as a military camp, where 280 tuen are ruled
by and in July this year was transferred kindness, where Whitehall decrees to the Prison Commissioners that criminals shall be made happy. what was officially described as a for 11 ja called Fortworth Court, "remarkable experiment In penal establishment that is vun on reform. country club lines.
Attention has
recently been focused on Tortworth by a number of escapes, if a scramble over four-fool ivy-covered wall can be called an "escape."
prison
Object of the experimenters Is to prevent men swerved from a life of respectability Who have suddenly
association with them while serving becoming hardened criminals through sentence.
Here is the first detailed descrip- Candidates for Tortworth are cure tion of life at Tortworth Court, with fully selected. Admission is its collection of reprieved murderers,stricted to men serving their first
re-
I spent my last £5
A New Experiment
in Prison Reform
By GWYN LEWIS
Tortworth Inmates are "broken" of the habit of calling warders "sir" Just one of the many little touches that it is claimed helps to restore self-respect and pride.
meal
Perusal of the Tortworth sheets shows that the food is exactly the same as at other prisons, but one prisoner to whom I talked on his relcase sold:
sentence of penal nervitude, that is,
"It is prepared like a banquet. three years and upwards, and some governor himself, and the prison good cooking. They even peel the Psychiatrists, doctors, warders, the dishes, and I have never known such Orderlies remove and wash-up dirty others who may have served shorter chaplain each look for the good that potatoes, servitude. sentences not amounting to penal may exist in even a murderer saved other prisons."
an undcard of thing in from the scaffold by some extenual- ing circumstance and reprieved.
Recreation when the eight-hour working day is done and on work- Men arrive nt
Iren Sunday Includes a Brary with Tortworth in 16,000 books, uncensored newspapera. batches of 20. They, listen to
aa new speech of welcome to "the camp"
full-size billiards table.
The governor's speech of 'welcome'
He
They may have tennis, this year
Outdoors there is a swimming pool, and a football pitch.. It is planned to
provida
A
A few of this class have time" amounting in the ngregate to 5. J. Henderson, who began life as tables, draughts and chess.
"done by the rovernor, genial, humane Mrmerous dart boards, table tennis many years, and are now at Torta farm Inbetirer. worth Court,
The really incorrigible are barred them that his job is to make them calls them "ads" and tells from this heaven for the wrongdoer, happy. where life is in many ways superior to that In un Army camp.
observation for at least two months Sentenced men are kept under
worth. before being recommended for Tort
The character and conduct of the man are factors that count more than landed him in juil. the gravity of the crime that
on a dinner
can't remember how many times
I've been broke. It was quite
a lot of times.
It wasn't so good while it lasted. But a man has to be broke nt least once in order to get a sense of value.
Not that a sense of value is much good if you stay broke permanently, It's necessary to get yourself out of that condition at the earliest pos- sible moment, even if you risk being more broke than ever in the attempt
One of the times I was broke was way back in the 1920's when I re- : turned to London from a tour Europe.
That tour of Europe, made on smalt legacy from an
aunt,
of
a
was
hot
very educational, but we need go into that now. It left me with
something like £5. And no job.
There seemed not to be much sense in ckelng out an existance on
£5...su_I_look_Estelle_Brody,
the
English film star, to dinner at Ciro's. In those days two people could dine
quite well on £5.
RAY MILLAND'S COLUMN
This is the second article of a series by the famous film star, who has been visiting his native England.
lay awake all night till six in the morning figuring out how I might have avoided defeat.
It was the road to the louny bin. I gave up chess.
No, it isn't just luck that gets you
places. Once I was on vaca- tion at Salcombe in Devon and I thought it would be fun to cross the Channel to Calais in an open boat. A stail inboard motor will take you nicely over a smooth lake without navigation skill, but for a trip of Estelle asked me my plans and 1180 miles in the Channel you have to had to admit that I had plenty think of rough seas, tides, currents of plans but no means of carrying and victualling. them out just then. Well, why not, she suggested, go to work as on ex- tre in her studio?
She got me the job next morning. But it did't last. Two hours after I reported for work I had another break.
was picked as a type and the same afternoon was off to Scotland for my first part in filmsı
I'm not telling every young man to spend his last ver on a dinner. Maybe the guest wouldn't be one of the rare friends who not only promise a job but hand it to you.....
FOR four years before that trip around Europe 1 was a trooper
in the Household Cavalry, after
EWANCHAI ROAD WARCHATEN At 2.30, 5.15, 7.15 & 9.15 p.m. leaving King's College at Cardiff.
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At 2.30, 5.20,
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OF
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I ran out of gas and sandwiches after eight hours and was humiliated by being picked up by a skcomer.
In matters of this sort and in most other things "knowledge is power as a wiser guy once sald.
plan that my son Danny, who is aix years old now, w have a decent schooling, go to university, If he rates it, and then make his own way. And I mean make his own way.
He explains that they will And the warders all kindly men with
whom they can fall freely and dis-ymnasium for boxing contents, a cuss their troubles. He tells them cricket ground, and allotments are that such things as solitary contine-contemplated for those with a taste ment and bread and water diet are
for gardening. unknown at Tortworth.
it.
There are Livo lakes in th10 grounds, both well stocked with dol
the reforming qualities of.
own
The men hear that it la casler to ind get out of Tortworth than to enter angling are being considered. Tennis
courts are also Not so much as a strand of barbed year,
a possibility this wire holds them back, but punish- ment for those who attempt escape orchestra,
The men have their own 15-pleco Is Transfer to another prison
providing their and instruments. „possible loss of good-conduct mission.
Every Sunday the governor
itz- sperts the men's huts and awards prize of two ources of tobacco for the best-kept hut. Rivalry is keen. Relatives and friends of the in- mates open their eyes on visiting
Seven men just
walked out
re-
A Jew days ago seven men days when they are welcomed with "escaped." They Just walked out a cup of tea made by the convict of the place were all recaptured himself. Conversation is not carried and are now in another prison. on through a grille with a watchful
Each of the seven has begged to warder in attendance. be sent back to Tortworth. Ench bitterly repents quitting the
Vislis are held in a comfortably where he was so happy. But here in sight, but out of earshot.
place furnished room with a warder with is no way back.
1
No warder with jangling keys conducts the new arrival at Tort- worth to a cell. He' sleeps in a hut with 20 other men. He sleeps on a well-sprung bed with sheets und blankets,
Convicts elsewhere ure locked in their cells at 5 p.m. and there until seven o'clock the next remain
morning. They eat in their cells.
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Men smoke on prison wages
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I heard that in the spring visitors' enclosure is to be laid out Tortworth Court, among the trees and Lawns of
station by a warder tactfully dressed Released men are seen off at tha
civilian clothes.
in
Bedtime at Tortworth is 0 p.m. and lights out an hour inter.
Smoking is permitted, but only to The men dine in a hall that has running from 44d. to in. a week,
the extent possible on prison wages not been changed since it was I deplore this increasing tendency cupled by American troops.
Stories have been read in the in the social set-up to place security
prison telling of There is a curb on Brst. It a man gets everything pro- among convicts in vided by the State he will, being There is no bridle
conversation terrified at having these
villagers being most prisons.tively unguarded criminals amongst compara- human, put out less effort.
on chatter at Com-Tortworth. They may even whistle
them. success story. And petition is a prime incentive in any while they work
These stories have caused rauch in the "camp" indignation men are Jike boot and clothing factories, making who claim to be model prisoners.
among the prisoners, horses-they need an incentive.
Or is it that, like donkeys, we radio provides
equipment for postmen. In fact, Nevertheless must admit that the must have someone
music white to dangle
they villagers are pressing for the closing carrot in front of our nose?
down of Turtworth, These guinea pigs of this "re- Cynical village people predict the markable experiment" do not even experiment will be abandoned soon, Buffer
of n haircut. The
prison but I understand negotiations for a Tortworth barbers 09 year's lease are in consult the wishes of their customers. mansion, at present emply; would hand. The Nor do those who elect to work in that case be used for housing, the outside on the farms the humiliation of being accompanied by armed.
See you here on Thursday.
Ray Milland.
According To Culbertson
(Copyright, 1946, by Ely Culbertson)
a work, cat and play.
the indignity
experience younger convicts.
Livestock to being bought for the guards. Thinguardis, prison farm that plannest. equipped only with truncheons,. are Warders are so imply at Tortworth unobtrusive figures in the back-that they are seeking cottages for ground.
their families,
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pictures where guns are flashed
about. They wanted someone shoot a mirror out ol Lyn de Pulti's hand. Ex-trooper Reginald Truscott-Jones (that was my name when I was
West opened the trump eight; then or later born 38 years back) was able to do dummy's nine that. He was also able, when placed East, sure that he had nothing to to the diamond
was put. in, and draw East's 'trump queen, at one end of a room with a pistol, gain by covering,
ace and take the unhesitatingly fulfilling trick with long spades. South probably should South, however, failed to appre- the job as sharpshooter In Titove overtaken with the ton, to lead clate his opportunity..
With the Informer" of Elstree and made the singleton spade toward dum-evident thought that the diamond
but he another step on the switchback (ft
was in even better finesse would have to succeed, for n was nothing so simple as a ladder) Position when, having led toward his
needed entry to dummy, he tried to something boiter.
own spade nine, East ducked and that fness, and whon East West's arn was driven out. Many
success-story merchants
won and led back: the heart queen, advise concentration on one line of leading idea, and the ace was cor-
West persisted with his trump- South was through. Indeed he went industry. I'm not so sure.
down three tricks.
to hit a half-crown placed at the played low. ather end. So he it was who got
My last period of being broke, during which I acquired quite a skill In getting meals on the cuff, ended 12 years ago in meeting Jou Egli at a bus stop in Hollywood. Joe Egli came from the Paramount casting department and I have been with the company ever since.
Luck? I don't know. I love gin rummy, but in gin rummy. you are at the mercy of the deck, and I get the darnedest hands.
Bridge is different, I think I could make a fair living out of bridge. Games of skill Buit me better than gimes of chance.
In case you think place too much falin in my not too great Intelligence, let me admit that when 1.went on losing games of chess I
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