Prison Work as a Career: A Course of Study Based on the Work and Objectives of the Federal Prison System |
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Page 114 - The paroled offender should be carefully supervised and promptly reimprisoned or otherwise disciplined if he does not demonstrate capacity and willingness to fulfill the obligations of a law-abiding citizen; "8. The supervision of the paroled offender should be exercised by qualified persons trained and experienced in the task of guiding social readjustment; "9. The state should provide adequate financial support for a parole system, including sufficient personnel selected and retained in office...
Page 17 - Provision of suitable quarters for, and safekeeping, care, and subsistence of, all persons charged with or convicted of offenses against the United States or held as witnesses or otherwise.
Page 113 - The true purpose of parole was admirably stated by President Roosevelt in his nationally -broadcast address in these words "... the true purpose of parole is to protect society — all of us — by supervising and assisting released prisoners until they have a chance to get on their feet and show that they intend to live lawabiding, self-supporting lives.
Page 114 - The period of imprisonment should be used to prepare the individual vocationally, physically, mentally, and spiritually for return to society. 6. The community through its social agencies, public and private, and in co-operation with the parole service should accept the responsibility for improving home and neighborhood conditions in preparation for the prisoner's release.
Page 114 - I. The paroling authority should be impartial, non-political, professionally competent and able to give the time necessary for full consideration of each case; II. The sentencing and parole laws should endow the paroling authority with broad discretion in determining the time and conditions of release; III.
Page 127 - ... on the job" training of the kind that is becoming generally accepted in outside industries. Those inmates who are capable of assimilating trade training and of developing high grade industrial or trade skills are designated by the classification committee of the institution as vocational trainees and are required to carry on a program of related school work. (4) Special classes in such fields as languages, commercial subjects, mathematics, lettering and mechanical drawing, and a variety of other...
Page 94 - It is hereby declared to be the policy of the Congress that the said institutions be so planned and limited in size as to facilitate the development of an integrated Federal penal and correctional system which will assure the proper classification and segregation of Federal prisoners according to their character.
Page 113 - ... offenders are by operation of law ultimately released, and that parole, when properly administered and carefully distinguished from clemency, protects the public by maintaining control over offenders after they leave prison, do declare and affirm that FOR PAROLE FULLY TO ACHIEVE ITS PURPOSE I.
Page 285 - Fitness (page 20) 1. False 2. True 3. False 4. True 5. False 6. False 7. False 8. True 9. False 10. True 11. False 12. False Heart Rates and Getting Active (page 21) 1.
Page 114 - The public should recognize the necessity of giving the paroled offender a fair opportunity to earn an honest living and maintain self-respect to the end that he may be truly rehabilitated and the public adequately protected.