IN PENAL COLONIES.
MANY GO INSANE ON PRJSON FARE. Paris, Nov. I.—A report read at a recent meeting of the Academy of Medicine by Dr Jouflront, who studied criminology in France’s largest penal colonies, certifies that 36 percent. of the convicts become insane on the prison diet ; that their brains, already feeble, grow rapidly worse, and that after a short time they become completely irresponsible. In one establishment the lunacy special-) ist counted 250 prisone rs tainted with insanity. The report expresses a hope that a commission composed of mental specialists will be appointed to examine with a view to transferring to an asylum those whom it is a crime to subject to the Hardships of a convict settlement.
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Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 709, 3 January 1903, Page 3
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119IN PENAL COLONIES. Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 709, 3 January 1903, Page 3
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