It was in this chamber and beyond it, however, in the halls and meeting rooms, and wherever Canadians would give him a microphone and time to speak, that Senator Hastings became one of the country's most vigorous advocates of prison reform. Those who watched him in action, as he would go on one of his periodic visits to this country's penitentiaries, marvelled at his capacity to hold the attention and the respect of prisoners who trusted few others to befriend them, and even fewer in whom to confide.
Mais c'était ici, au Sénat, ainsi que dans les corridors, les salles de réunion, enfin, partout où les Canadiens lui donnaient un microphone et le temps de parler que le sénateur Hastings devenait l'un des plus grands défenseurs de la réforme des prisons au Canada.
