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FIT OF PIQUE IN OLD PERU

From R. M. MacColl

Washington.

Wly fascinating coun

WHEN first 1 caine to

try a quarter of a century back a bandit named San- dino was making merry down in the Central Ameri- can Republic of Nicaragua.

And, more or less as a

a matter of course, the US. Marines, fabled in song and story, were sent into that sovereign State to take care of him. Nobody thought twice about it.

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Well, things have changed great deal since then because the US. realised that it was to her interest to allay the fears, jealousies, and prejudices which the "Latinoe" south of the bòr-; der entertained about Colossus of the North."

"the

BLIC-

This policy proved very cessful. A new era of "good neighbourliness” dawned and Americans, no longer feared and envied, found themselves liked and admired.

ALL THIS reached ità cul- minallon during the last war, when Nelson Rockefeller (yes, a member of the famous clan) did: abang-up job of fostering good! relations down México way

But now America ands, to her dimay, that an ebb tide has not in. It is part of the price of being transformed almost over- night into a great world Power.

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"Hold tight! Here's Geoff Duke right bohind you-pull over to the karb."

London Express Berrice

Has the

NEW PRISON SYSTEM

BEEN A FAILURE?

IONEL WRAY FOX ed treatment of young offenders.

is 57, and lives in The "possibilitics" of the Borstal must be instilled with an idea

deap nais of 21 to 30, Mr. Fox says: 100 boys still toll in the "The ·sályage of this war mud and bliter winds to add to corroded generation from lives the protecting banks und deren me 200 acres of tre richiest and in the country,"

of habitual crime is a terrible responsibility for the prison

atom of today."

"

And he quotes this letter to

This is the trouble: Latin

the suburban quiet boy must be discovered, and heAFTER 4 YEARS, Americans are chorusing that

of Purley, Surrey., of the right way to live, is the

LIONEL W. FOX, America "has her eyes fixed

THE MAN WHO only on Europe and the Far But his life's work has been theory behind it all: With what East and has no tune for her In the Criminal Division of success?

SHOULD KNOW As for the under-21's-an the prison governors from the sister nations nearer home." the Home Office, and for the

MOST ABOUT even more distressing problem parents, of a young

offender recently released: "Wo there was a slight drop in would like to express OLD*** BRITAIN'S numbers during the first two appreciation for your sympathe

past ten years he has been chairman of the Prison Commission, intimately re- sponsible for the running of resentment Britain's 59 gaols. throughout South America."

THE New York Times sends a reporter down to find out what the score is and he reports "amouldering

to compelled to record many Mr Fox, in making his report, disappointments.

When the now Act came into force there was but a trickle of persistent offenders. Now the trickie is a torrent.

GAOLS, BRINGS OUT HIS REPORT

Where successes are achieved,

younger people

were all

woma

consideration towards the daughter..

plime

years after the Act,, but much the time resorting to vicious crime we are quite certain "that"

It is depressing to read of the

had your attitude been more `in Reeping with what one usually "brually moted space of associates with prisons life sho

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Last week-end Mr. Fox Highlighting the general feel- told us just where our ing is an article in the leading modern penal system is suc- Sadly Mr Fox says: "We are concerned with nearly 7:200 paper of Peru's capital city,

He, men and 400 women whore- and peralstent offenders have out-of-date prisons. There would have come back to Lima. It says: The construcceeding and failing.

experiences. tive Inter-American policy of did it in the first report on, present the fallure of the penal been willing to Learn a trade, e no prison in England more very much the swore to he

in generai and the trades unions often fail to co- recent then the 19th century. Franklin Roosevelt has stumbled the system since its reform system

jobs. In October, 1951 operate in Anding them

there overe “Instřád we find the shining disastrously during the adminis- by the Criminal Justice Act, prison system in particular."

and many employers still have 22,500 people in ghol, the highest light of an unbroken spirit and tration of Truman."

the immovable prejudice against figure ever recorded. Today the renewed dalth in humanity.

totpi stands at nearly 24,000. the ex-convict,"

Men are sleeping three in a cell.

BLACK VELVET bathing suits for women are selling well. Price: £10 145.

1948.

-That Act abolished penal- servitude with all its legacy.. of onkum-picking, stone

A 'cushy' job

AT LEAST one of Washing-breaking, and solitary con- UND

"Hard labour"

A ton's women

taxi-drivers finement. three-year-old son takes her round with her on the front seat, was no more. She says: "He loves it -- and,

Instead came an extension of brother, it solves the baby-j sitter problem."

the new vogue in criminal treat

:

Su

No softening

Consider Borstal, for example, The chairman of the Prison INDER -the - new scheme Once the method was to ham- Commission, however, does not prisoners are asked to co- mer the boy into the right present a picture entirely with operate in their rehabilitation. shape. Later, he was kneaded out hope and light.

Now, how does Lionel Fox hinter view the new era Each is given a card which Uko a lump of putty. Now,

He tells us how "homely" of intelligent kindaca unicrod aims to make him understand

is not to break or some of the old lags have made In by the Criminal Justice why he was sentenced and what the idea

Acti to study him their cells, what pride they take He betrays

sentimental may happen If he persists in knead him but

as an individual, letting him in keeping them spick and apan. softening towards the brates or crime.

and stay in a place run something

deliberate wrong-doera THE PROBLEM of the "wet- ment corrective training

backs"-thousands of illegal prevent the toughest But many of these protok like a fairly grim public school. Happy Borstals

"whom, he soos "in "the" workshop

of a tough London prison: have a quiet and painful in- pression that here are the right

ધમાં on Immigrants who swim the Rio g. Grande from Mexico to try to criminals, of all, the hard core

the crime farm work in the US. of find becomes so acute that Congress offenders.

grants money to build two huge

..

declares Mr Fox, simply Look upon the Act na designed to Mr Fox cannot yet tell us if peralstent "often up" conditions for

them They expect a "cushy" the new methods are succeeding.. job while under-corrective de- The, most he can offer is the TE tells. ef, the happy at men in the right place.” tention, demanding

be hope that when 1950 and 1951. mohere of many Borstals,

detention camps near Brown Disappointments to winter and gardeners come to be asseseed they will and mrenicles the dogged enter ers or watches een working in

California.

You have heard of Public THE Criminal Justice Act also

Enemy No. 1-but even New

York's case-hardened Magistrate

in summer."

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war standard."

men

But when he sees first offend-

show that Borstal has fought prize of Hollesley Bay, one of one of the new training prisons, largest of modern he asks himself: "Why are these

there?" And

very, very often the is way back at least to its pro- the

Borstais: * game people, after being given

A recent Improvement, he "At least since the days--of And he, is convinced that the a kit of tools on discharge and John Murtagh was amazed • “The English Prisons and Borstal found a job, appear in court warns, may not last.... Dealing the Empire, men have enbank- history of crime shows that

disferrent uned the shores of the Wash, to policy of uniform. the record of 31-year-old Joseph system

the following week still pleading, with the insolent and that they "never had a chance." ashamed young postwar crimi- reclaim rich Lincolnshire land severity has never worked

from the sea-marsh Today Britain, he belleves, still lends. a thriving little colony of about the world in penal reform.

Doran, called in court Trame | Paul, 30r.); Enemy No. 1.

For in and under as many allanes, Jou

In the last 'dozen years

has stolen nearly 100 care and committed practically every sorti

of traffic offence' in the book.

attempted a more enlighten:

(Routledge and Kepan

PRISON

NOTES

CELL

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Cell windows-eye level

OBJECTS:

WINDOWS: Once leads to mere corruption, secret ILLICIT "Cars" says the magistrate, they were 8ft. Din. above Block and overt violence, and general most remattiable cell and

conduct with almost British understate-level. The newest type are tft, bad feeling and evil

recent years was a radio made ment as he holds Joe without

up. "It is no longer thought than almost any other aspect of

The

in

.

or telephone equipment bail, seem to have been your wrong that a prisoner should prison. life. The tobacco baron,*

be able to loolt out from his who with the help of his jackals smuggled in from a workshop,

gels a hold on the weak and The officer, who discovered window."

"The poor hard up who have been led into commented:

Caster

chap

downfall."

CRUEL taskumaster is mbking A American men refuse the WOMEN FRISONERS may borrowing, is a menacing feature was wasting his time because potato chips and blueberry_pie now have a choice of four of the unsavoury underlite of he could only get the Third which they could never before colours for their frocks, in e all too many prisons" resist.

#zephyr" material, to a normal i

Programme,"

Ite name TV. Fat men tend though uniform design. They THE PRISON GOVERNOR: • THE RULE OF SILENCE to look fatter on the screen. may wear their own corsets and The time is long past when the has

Sherman Billingsley, propriet- brassieres.

or of New York's Stork Club,

been abolished. 'O past of a prison governor was a parade, during meals, recrea« Tiuttable niche for the retired tion and exercise and on educa- հող shed 301b. since TV fans⚫ THE TOBACCO BABON: officer with the reputation of " tional occasions talking is quilo called him roly poly.

unrestricted." or the lack of it, good disciplinarlari."

"Tobacco,

New Elizabethans On An Ice Cap

800 miles wide the largest News of discoveries will be island in the world? Or is radioed to the London headquar it made up of other islands ters and passed to the Queen, and seas which are hidden? who is the patron of the ex-

How deep is the great Ice pedition. cap which covers nine- tenths of the island?

of

By using a technique similar to that used by ell prospectors, they hope to get echoes from the bedrock beneath the two-mile- thick ico,

As well as their professional qualifications each man in experienced mountainonta, e

TS Greenland-1,600 miles £1,000 was contributed by Mr land's ice cap manning the lone includes special seismic appara- llest and the coldest-weather, tus for measuring the depth of long, between 700 and Churchill.

station in the world 800 miles the fee cap from the North Pole, at a hel

at a height VOTRE 9,000Ft At times the temperature will be to dear

00 degrees below LCTO.

warmth. ́ ́and protection "Leader of the party is 40-year from 100 miles an hour blizzards old Courtland J. W. Simpson, they will go underground" for At what rate are the D.3.0, RN, who has recon- the winter, digging living rooms, glaciers melting? Are their noltred the land approaches and store rooms and communicating:

tunnels out

Faut-i of the "coinpressed waters likely to flood the a sile for a base camp. world's ports?

With him will go 23. offiction the weather Next month 24 of Britain's and men chosen from the ERAT planes directed to the chap, race who have sweet team- Now Elizabethans will saff to vices and univeralties, All are in Greenland to find the answers to the 20's, The will spend a year camp by homing beacon, are pers" said Commander Simp

iesp questions.

In the Arctic Circle, me to drop food supplies. conthe men will spend The 100 tons of equipment £100,000 to £izianow, and the first twoiyurmantbe om top và Greens which the expedition, is taking

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