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ADDRESS ON PENAL REF01~ BY THE INSPECTOR GENERAL OF PENAL ESTABL. ISHMENTS (contd) I i I~ j il il in Hi , i ~ I .... iuHi i i m i i I i il ' i il, Ji]IIUIIJA I I I II i i I I I i ' nm l~li i The report of the English Commission on Prisons (1923) set out very desirable aims where probation has proved ineffective and gaol is necessary for the protect- ion of society. This report says that gaol should provide a system of training to refit the person for the community, should promote self respect, and should awaken a sense of personal responsibility by the introduction of various degrees of trust within the gaol routine. Mr. Whatmore hopes that Ell these aims will be realieed in the new reformatory at Langi-Cel-~l which has been purchased to replace Castlemaine. This will take the form of a Boretal, and one of the main principles of its management will be that all sentences to this gaol will be of a duration long enough to enable some genuine character reform to be achieved. The post-institution treatment should be carried out by probation officers, said