Report of the Prison Association of New York, Volume 20

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26th, 1870, appendix: Transactions of the National Congress on Penitentiary and Reformatory Discipline [Cincinnati, 1870] Includes "Catalogue of works on criminal law, penology and prison discipline" (p. 588-622)
 

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Page 360 - purpose other than those for which this corporation is founded. ARTICLE I. The object of the Association shall be: * > 1. The amelioration of the condition of prisoners, whether detained for trial,- or finally convicted, or as witnesses. 2. The improvement of prison discipline, and the government of prisons, whether for cities, or counties, or
Page 71 - practiced in them; and looking into the prisons I beheld scenes of calamity which I grew daily more and more anxious to alleviate. In order, therefore, to gain a more perfect knowledge of the particulars and extent of it, by various and accurate observation, I visited most of the county jails in England.
Page 230 - species of insanity, in which the patient fancies the existence of injury, and seeks an opportunity of gratifying revenge by some hostile act. If such a person is capable, in other respects, of distinguishing right from wrong, there is no excuse for any act of atrocity, which he
Page 361 - report to the society all their proceedings, and such other matters as shall be likely to advance the ends of the Association. ARTICLE V. The society shall meet annually in the city of New York, at such time and place as the executive committee may appoint,
Page 142 - But seek the Lord while He may be found; call upon Him while He is near, for you
Page 365 - be the duty of the committee on prison discipline : To give attention to the internal organization and management of prisons, embracing the physical and moral influences to be exerted on the prisoners during their confinement. This duty shall be comprised under the following heads : health, reformation, convict labor, administration and internal police, comparison of different prison
Page 230 - have not intelligence and capacity enough to have a criminal intent and purpose, and if his moral or intellectual powers are either so deficient that he has not sufficient will, conscience or controlling mental power, or if, through the
Page 361 - such persons as, in their opinion, may be likely to promote the objects of the society; and shall have power to fill any vacancy which may occur in any of the offices of the Association, intermediate the annual
Page 70 - of mercy! yet resume the search, Drag forth the legal monsters into light; Wrench from their hands oppression's iron rod, And make the cruel feel the pangs they give.
Page 70 - procured the appointment of a committee of the House of Commons " to inquire into the state of jails in this kingdom." Parliament took up the investigation warmly; corruptions, peculations, and abuses

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