Category: Law & Criminology
"The separation of one prisoner from another is the only sound basis on which a reformatory (prison) discipline can be established with any reasonable hope of success."--_Fifth Report of Inspectors of English Prisons._
IDIOTS IN NEW YORK.--There are two thousand eight hundred idiots in the State of New York. The report of the superintendent of the Idiot Asylum, near Albany, contains the follow...
4. Part 4The moral instructor in the Eastern State Penitentiary adverts to the circumstance that only nineteen of the one hundred and twenty-six commitments were over thirty-five years o...
2. Part 2Of _moral improvement_, however, as regards the _many_, embracing change of principle and _real amendment of character_, he feels (he says) considerable diffidence. Bearing in m...
5. Part 5In such an emergency, we might further suppose that measures would be adopted at once to enlarge the accommodations and to obviate the alleged necessity for thus openly violatin...
1. Part 1"The separation of one prisoner from another is the only sound basis on which a reformatory (prison) discipline can be established with any reasonable hope of success."--_Fifth...
3. Part 3Although the remedy for this enormous evil is justly regarded as lying to a considerable degree in the hands of educators, it is maintained that "much may be done to abate the e...
7. Part 7_Whereas_, The increase of Juvenile Delinquency in all the large cities of our country, has claimed the attention of philanthropists; and _whereas_, the Board of Managers of the...