Report of ProceedingsAmerican Correctional Association, 1899 Proceedings for 1884 and 1885 include report of conference of prison officials, Chicago, 1884, separately paged. |
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الصفحة 426 - There will be none such any more, till in some better age true ambition, or the loye of fame, prevails over avarice; and till men find leisure and encouragement to prepare themselves for the exercise of this profession, by climbing up to the vantage ground...
الصفحة 497 - He paused, as if revolving in his soul Some weighty matter, then, with fervent voice And an impassioned majesty, exclaimed — " O for the coming of that glorious time When, prizing knowledge as her noblest wealth And best protection, this imperial Realm, While she exacts allegiance, shall admit An obligation, on her part, to teach Them who are born to serve her and obey ; Binding herself by statute to secure For all the children whom her soil maintains The rudiments of letters, and inform The mind...
الصفحة 204 - Whenever any criminal, convicted of any offense against the United States, Is Imprisoned in the jail or penitentiary of any state or territory, such criminal shall in all respects be subject to the same discipline and treatment as convicts sentenced by the courts of the state or territory...
الصفحة 378 - Beverley Warner told the National Prison Association in 1898 that philanthropic organizations all over the country were making efforts to get the children out of the slums, even if only once a week, into the radiance of better lives. Seeing the beauties of a better existence, these children may be led to choose the good rather than the evil. Good has been done by taking these children into places where they see ladies well dressed, and with their hands and faces clean, and it is only by leading the...
الصفحة 368 - Spain, in the United States, the tide of criminality is becoming higher steadily and rapidly. In France it has risen several hundred per cent ; so, also, for several kinds of serious crime, in many parts of Germany ; in Spain the number of persons sent to perpetual imprisonment nearly doubled between 1870 and 1883; in the United States the criminal population has increased since the war, relatively to the population by one-third.
الصفحة 428 - 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, Prepared Under the Authority of a Law of the Said State.
الصفحة 47 - Inasmuch as ye did it unto the least of these, ye did it unto me ' ? Christians are those who have Christ's spirit, as I think, and sacrifice themselves to save others.
الصفحة 173 - Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath : for it is written, Vengeance is mine ; I will repay, saith the Lord. Therefore, if thine enemy hunger, feed him ; if he thirst, give him drink : for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head. Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.
الصفحة 120 - The most pernicious infection, next the plague, is the smell of the jail, when prisoners have been long, and close, and nastily kept ; whereof we have had in our time experience twice or thrice ; when both the judges that sat upon the jail, and numbers of those that attended the business or were present, sickened upon it, and died.
الصفحة 398 - Air.— And as to air, my reader will judge of the malignity of that breathed in prisons, when I assure him that my clothes were, in my first journeys, so offensive, that in a post-chaise I could not bear the windows drawn up, and was therefore obliged to travel commonly on horseback. The leaves of my memorandum-book were often so tainted that I could not use it till after spreading it an hour or two before the fire ; and even my antidote — a vial of vinegar — has, after using it in a few prisons,...