19 JUNE 1936, Page 19

Sm„—I read with interest the article by Mr. Gray Temple

in your issue of May 29th, 1936, and wonder if you will permit me to contribute the following comments. He says, regarding discharged prisoners, " Human wreckage is being disgorged by our prisons into a world which is without hope or helping hand." Now, Sir, I speak only for may own (Hull East Riding and North Lincolnshire Prisoners' Aid Society) but this in our record of work for last year : 1,208 prisoners assisted on discharge, of whom 234 were returned to former employment ; 95 were placed in • new employment and 514 were returned to friends, placed in homes, the remainder being helped only with clothing, &c.

Further, of the above 1,208 we were able to report to the Home Office 558 as doing well, and 311 as doing fairly.

In view of what this Society (one of 40 similar societies) is doing, I really think Mr. Temple's words were a little too strong.—Yours, &c.,

J. R. MACDONALD

(Stipendiary Magistrate and Honorary Treasurer of the above Society).

11 George Yard, Alfred Gelder Street, Hull.