Category: History - Modern (1750+)

The Journal of Prison Discipline and Philanthropy 1919 (New Series, No. 58)

No person who is not an official visitor of the prison, or who has not a written permission, according to such rules as the Inspector may adopt as aforesaid, shall be allowed to visit the same; the official visitors are: the Governor, the Speaker and members of the Senate; the...

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6. Part 6

(_e_) To establish rules and regulations for the keeping of records and accounts by all such institutions, showing the labor performed by the inmates thereof, the value of the p...

7. Part 7

Nebraska is using agricultural prison labor in a small way outside State institutions and is meeting with splendid success. Maryland is having the same experience with about 75...

4. Part 4

Whether considered as a relief from the crushing burden of expense that our penal establishments entail, or as a remedy for the physical and moral degeneration resulting from en...

3. Part 3

Not that there have not in the last half century been notable improvements in the theory and practice of penal administration, some of them bold enough to bring America from tim...

5. Part 5

There is great diversity of opinion as to the best form of paroling authority. Generally, as in this Commonwealth, this power is lodged in the inspectors or managers of the seve...

2. Part 2

One of the most important features of our relief work is under the management of our Agent, Mr. Fred J. Pooley, at the Central Station, City Hall. From the forty-two Police Stat...

1. Part 1

No person who is not an official visitor of the prison, or who has not a written permission, according to such rules as the Inspector may adopt as aforesaid, shall be allowed to...

8. Part 8

Let us be thankful that the instances of cruelty and preposterous punishments have been so few. Grant that some of the reported instances are a species of brutal hazing, that so...

9. Part 9

Adger, Miss Willian, Kaufman, John G., Allen, Clara Hodges, Kehler, Dr. B. Frank, Allen, H. Percival, Keith, Elsie Wister, Arrison, Anna D., Kennedy, Harry, Ashton, Tabor, Koell...