Biennial Report of the Board of Control and Officers of the Michigan State Prison

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State Printers., 1887
 

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Página 55 - The cultivation of the intellectual to the neglect of the moral faculties, only gives greater power to those disposed to evil. We see on every hand that the greatest criminals are, to some extent, educated men. While the ignorant and uneducated are frequently led into crime by their ungoverned impulses and the weakness of their moral and intellectual natures, their crimes are not so far reaching and dangerous to the community. The educated criminal, clothed with the additional power the cultivation...
Página 17 - Clothing Department is charged with the material bought for convicts' clothing and shoes ; manufactures the clothing and shoes, keeps them in repair, and bears the expense of the laundry, of the convict bathing room, and of the convict shaving, as also of the wear and repair of the tools, furniture and fixtures of the department; The Y^ard Master's Department bears the expense of keeping the live stock of the Prison, of the wear and repair of the wagons and other tools and appliances used in carrying...
Página 55 - We should not be willing to abolish our schools of learning because some of the graduates of those schools become criminals, and because their capacity for crime has been enhanced by the education these schools have given them. As reasonable would it be for the farmer to say that he will raise no more grains or fruit because alcohol is made from them. The use of this substance thus produced, slaughters its tens of thousands every year, causing suffering and beggary in unnumbered households, rears...
Página 52 - It shall be the duty of the Inspectors to appropriate annually out of the avails of fees received from visitors the sum of five hundred dollars in the purchase of books for said prison for the use of the said convicts.
Página 55 - Experi3 ence has shown, as we think, that the limited instruction the chaplain has been able to give in addition to his other duties has been followed by good results. It has been found that a large number of the convicts desire to avail themselves of the privilege granted by the law, and seem to wish to make the best use of it. Being satisfied that something more is desirable in this direction than has hitherto been attempted, we have concluded to employ a teacher for the coming year, who shall...

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