Penology in the United StatesJohn C. Winston, 1921 - 344 pagina's |
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Pagina 332 - Law, and to the benefit of such of the English Statutes as existed on the Fourth day of July, seventeen hundred and seventy-six; and which, by experience, have been found applicable to their local and other circumstances, and have been introduced, used and practiced by the Courts of Law or Equity...
Pagina 71 - An Account of the principal Lazarettos in Europe ; with various Papers relative to the Plague ! together with further observations on some Foreign Prisons and Hospitals, and additional Remarks on the present state of those in Great Britain and Ireland.
Pagina 130 - ... the street, is more apt to be in need of the reformatory discipline than is the one guilty of a felony. The first law dealing with the Elmira Reformatory 1 Pennsylvania fixes the period from fifteen to twenty-five; Illinois from sixteen to twenty-one; Kansas sixteen to twenty-five; Massachusetts all under forty; Oklahoma no age limit. 1 Indiana, Iowa, Maine, Minnesota, Ohio. merely contemplated the erection of another state prison, but with the change in name and purpose it was decided to make...
Pagina 93 - See G. de Beaumont and A. de Tocqueville, On the Penitentiary System in the United States and its application in France, with an Appendix on Penal Colonies and also Statistical Notes (Philadelphia: Carey, Lea and Blanchard, translated by Francis Lieber, 1833), pp.
Pagina 149 - I would give as my best judgment and belief after making liberal deductions, that sixty-five per cent (65%) of the young men who go out on parole from this institution, live free from crime and their success in life and usefulness as citizens is above the average of the people of their class and circumstances; this because of the education and industrial training received at the Reformatory.
Pagina 60 - An Act for suppression and punishing of Rogues, Vagabonds, common Beggars, and other lewd, idle and disorderly Persons. And also for setting the Poor to Work.
Pagina 33 - ... for still other purposes, even serving occasionally as a temporary asylum for the insane. The part, therefore, which the jail plays in our scheme of punishment cannot be overestimated. 1 Prisoners and Juvenile Delinquents in the United States (Bureau of the Census, 1910), pp.
Pagina 265 - That the possibility of such license has a contagious effect on the whole of society there is no doubt. A society which looks upon such things with an indifferent eye is already infected to the marrow. In a word, the right granted to a man to inflict corporal punishment on his fellowmen is one of the plague spots of our society. It is the means of annihilating all civic spirit. Such a right contains in germ the elements of inevitable, imminent decomposition.
Pagina 77 - ... would * have seemed to them the bitterest kind of irony. This institution and, later, similar ones in other states came as a recognition that the penitentiary had little or no penitential or reformative influence on the prisoners. and Juvenile Delinquents in the United States (Bureau of the Censuj, 1910), p.
Pagina 72 - The separate and solitary feature became the chief characteristic of the system and as such was copied by the other states. 1 A System of the Laws of the State of Connecticut (Windham: John Byrne, 1796), II, pp.