Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 71, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 April 1917 — Convicts’ "Ei Dorado.” [ARTICLE]

Convicts’ "Ei Dorado.”

The greatest leniency is shown to criminals in New Zealand. Thus, in one jail, at the end of , the South island, a prisoner may keep a racehorse, and is permitted to transact business concerning" it. In the same jail well-behaved prisoners are allowed an afternoon out occasionally “on their own.” Prison authorities in New Zealand are believers in the moral effects of open air. In one of their institutions the newly arrived misdemeanaht ls allowed the choice of living In jail or outside it, tents being erected at the back. This system of sending people to jail by letting them live outside has, however, its disadvantages. In one case the “prisoners,” resenting hard treatment in the way’of a “lockout;” lifted up the “jail” and deposited it far away in the bush.