'The Adult Offender '—i
Lt.-Colonel Sir VIVIAN HENDERSON ,
M.C., M.P.
THIS EVENING, and in his next two talks, Sir Vivian Henderson is to speak of the Adult Offender. Tonight he will discuss Star prisoners, and the prisons to which they are sent. Next Wednesday he will deal with the recidivist, or persistent criminal. And on June 6, with women in prison.
For this evening's broadcast it may be useful to know just what the Star class is. It consists of those who should be separated from others because they have not been previously convicted, or not previously convicted of serious offences, and are not of criminal and corrupt habits. The fundamental idea is separation. In the old days first offenders, sentenced to prison, were contaminated by old lags '. What is aimed at now is that. in prison at any rate, they should never meet them
Classification is carried out with a view not only to ' minimising the danger of contamination ' but to ' facilitating the training '. Sir Vivian Henderson will speak, among other things, of Wakefield prison as a training centre.