Report of ProceedingsAmerican Correctional Association, 1896 Proceedings for 1884 and 1885 include report of conference of prison officials, Chicago, 1884, separately paged. |
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Transactions of the National Prison Congress American Correctional Association Visualització completa - 1884 |
Transactions of the National Prison Congress American Correctional Association Visualització completa - 1887 |
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Pàgina 38 - Then Peter said, Silver and gold have I none; but such as I have give I thee : In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth rise up and walk.
Pàgina 194 - In forming their opinions with respect to the industry of a convict, officers will bear in mind that as one convict may be able to do more work in a given time than another, so their reports on this head will have regard more to the continuous labor of the convict, the care bestowed upon it and the evidence of his desire to do all he can, than the absolute quantity he does, as compared with others. An amount of work which may thus be sufficient for one man may be quite insufficient for another, and...
Pàgina 168 - He finds out that many of the police arrests are "fakes," formalities gone through with to satisfy the "dear public," to make a record for some department, or some captain or some patrolman. When several of his cronies are arrested on rather serious charges, he finds that the police court is presided over by a man without dignity and without honesty. The judge's predecessor eloped with a prostitute, and the one before that was a defaulter. The judge will accept a "straw bond...
Pàgina 195 - Penitentiary will bear constantly in mind the nature of the institution into the service of "which he enters, the peculiarity of the duties he will have to perform as an officer...
Pàgina 194 - In their intercourse among themselves the officers and guards of the penitentiary are at all times to treat each other with that mutual respect and kindness that becomes gentlemen and friends, and are required to avoid all collisions, jealousies, separate and party views and interests among themselves, and are strictly forbidden to treat each other with disrespect, or to use any ungentlemanly epithets.
Pàgina 167 - There are not very many criminals who do not belong either to these classes or to their patrons. It consequently follows that these classes and the more pronounced criminals through them, form' their idea of the state and its morality, by what they see of it in the persons of the police and the police magistrates. If the state, through these, its representatives, gives object lessons in corruption, the classes that tend to criminality cannot but infer that the state is fundamentally as criminal as...
Pàgina 51 - He that believeth shall be saved : he that believeth not, shall be condemned...
Pàgina 195 - ... any infraction of prison disciplinary rules, the guard shall at once report the fact in writing to the captain of the night or day watch, stating the nature of the offense, and keeping a copy of such report on the stub of the blank book furnished him for that purpose. 16. Discipline is the first and highest consideration in a prison and must be maintained at all hazards, but that officer who maintains it with the lowest number of punishments deserves the highest commendation. 17.
Pàgina 194 - In their intercourse among themselves, the officers of the prison are at all times to treat each other with that mutual respect and kindness that become gentlemen and friends ; and are required to avoid all collisions, jealousies, separate and party views and interests...
Pàgina 334 - The life work of Mr. Vaux is without parallel in penology, for it can be truly said that the oversight and care of the Eastern Penitentiary and of its inmates was his distinctive life work. He was an authority on penology, not only in Pennsylvania, but in Europe. That in which the Eastern State Penitentiary was different at first from any other institution is known in criminology as the Pennsylvania system, and was the outcome of the best thought of the Quaker element in Philadelphia, headed by Robert...