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Chapter 17
A COMMEMORATIVE BOOKLET
Reproduced here is the text of a now rare booklet that was printed at Yatala
Labour Prison for the guests who attended ‘The Official Opening of the
Cadell Training Centre, South Australia by the Chief Secretary the
Honourable Sir Lyell McEwin K.B.E., M.L.C. on Tuesday, 31st May,
1960’.
FOREWORD
It has been said that the test of a prison system is what happens when the
prisoner is released.
Modern methods of prison treatment seek the social rehabilitation of
the offender, endeavouring to prepare him to take his place once more
as a normal member of society and helping him feel that he is still part
of the community.
The Cadell Training Centre is the modern approach to one of the
problems of rehabilitation. Here conditions more closely resemble
those of normal life than is possible under traditional prison systems.
The aim is to waken in the trainee the will to lead a good and useful life
on release by the development of character, self-control and a sense of
personal responsibility.
A. Lyell McEwin
Chief Secretary
31st May, 1960.
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