Correction and Prevention, Volume 1Charles Richmond Henderson Charities Publication Committee, 1910 |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
administration adopted American appeal applied appointed arson authority Barrows bigamy Brockway burglary character charge Charities child civil commission committed committee Common Law conduct Constitution contract contractor convict crime criminal law death declared defendant discharge District duty effect Elmira Elmira Reformatory enacted established evil F. B. Sanborn fact federal courts felony Francis Lieber grand jury guilt Illinois imprisonment indeterminate sentence indictment industrial influence insane institutions interest International Prison Congress jail judge judgment jurisdiction justice juvenile court legislation legislature Louisiana Marsangy Massachusetts maximum penalty ment methods mind misdemeanor moral National Prison offense parole penal codes penitentiary penology person political practical President principle prison discipline prison labor prison reform prison system probation officer procedure prosecution punishment punitive rape reformatory regard release restraint secure social society statutes Supreme Court Theodore W tion treatment treaty trial United Washington Wines
Popular passages
Page 11 - ... subject, to such laws as now exist or may hereafter be enacted; he shall appoint the agents, wardens, physicians and chaplains of the prisons. " The agent and warden of each prison shall appoint all other officers of such prison, except the clerk, subject to the approval of the same by the superintendent.
Page 8 - The powers delegated by the proposed constitution to the federal government, are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the state governments, are numerous and indefinite.
Page 27 - Every contract, combination in the form of trust or otherwise, or conspiracy, in restraint of trade or commerce among the several States, or with foreign nations, is hereby declared to be illegal. Every person who shall make any such contract or engage in any such combination or conspiracy, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor...
Page 95 - If the prosecution be for a felony, the defendant must be personally present at the trial; but if for misdemeanor, the trial may be had in the absence of the defendant; if, however, his presence is necessary for the purpose of identification, the court may, upon application of the district attorney, by an order or warrant, require the personal attendance of the defendant at the trial.
Page 46 - January, in the year one thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven, no person in any such prison, penitentiary, jail or reformatory, shall be required or allowed to work, while under sentence thereto, at any trade. Industry or occupation, wherein or whereby his work, or the product or profit of his work, shall be fanned out, contracted, given or sold to any person, firm, association or corporation.
Page 152 - A System of Penal Law, for the State of Louisiana: Consisting of A Code of Crimes and Punishments, A Code of Procedure, A Code of Evidence, A Code of Reform and Prison Discipline, A Book of Definitions.
Page 47 - The prisoner's self-respect should be cultivated to the utmost, and every effort made to give back to him his manhood. There is no greater mistake in the whole compass of penal discipline, than its studied imposition of degradation as a part of punishment. Such imposition destroys every better impulse and aspiration. It crushes the weak, irritates the strong, and indisposes all to submission and reform.
Page 50 - Prisons, as well as prisoners, should be classified or graded so that there shall be prisons for the untried, for the incorrigible and for other degrees of depraved character, as well as separate establishments for women, and for criminals of the younger class.
Page 4 - ... constant protection and security for their persons and property, and shall enjoy in this respect the same rights and privileges as are or shall be granted to the natives on their submitting to the conditions imposed upon the natives.