He urged the society to concentrate employment for discharged pris, for in so doing they would much more than wages; they would give him a new life. The Home Office, said the Home Secretary, used to be regarded as little more than a department of convenient regulations for the maintentance of law and order, but he had seen enough of it to say that it was a department of sympathetic and common sense progress in the fields with which it wa; connected. Not go long ago the police: as little more than the enemy of the criminal, but now he was often regarded as the guide, philosopher, and friend of the general public.
In conclusion, Sir' Samuel Hoare paid a tribute t© employers who were willing to give another chance to discharged prisoners. emphasizing without their cooperation it would not be possible for the society to carry on. Such employers and the workers for the society were helping men and women when they most needed it, and were instruments for transforming prisoners into good citizens,
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