Report of Proceedings

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American Correctional Association, 1926
Proceedings for 1884 and 1885 include report of conference of prison officials, Chicago, 1884, separately paged.
 

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Página 354 - Commission shall hold an annual meeting at such time and place as it may decide. Additional meetings shall be held when requested by two or more members of the Commission.
Página 355 - ... Society and three members of the Executive Council, shall constitute quorums. Article 10. Amendments. Amendments to this constitution shall become operative after being recommended by the Executive Council and approved by two-thirds of the members present and voting at any regular monthly meeting; provided, that notice of the proposed amendment shall have been given at a regular meeting of the Society, at least four weeks prior to the meeting when such proposed amendment is passed upon by the...
Página 19 - The improvement of the penal, correctional and reformatory institutions throughout the country, and of the government, management and discipline thereof, including the appointment of boards of trustees and other officers.
Página 283 - 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...
Página 354 - The care of, and providing suitable and remunerative employment for, discharged prisoners, and especially such as may or shall have given evidence of a reformation of life.
Página 115 - It is the work of men who believed in original sin, and were resolved to leave open for transgressors no door which they could possibly shut.
Página 111 - As one studies criminal justice in action in America today, he must be struck with the way in which the different agencies of justice, acting quite independently, continually hinder or thwart each other, or, if fortunately there is no interference, at best lend each other little or no aid. Each state, each county, each municipality, each court, each prosecutor, each police organization — and often more than one is operating in the same territory — is likely to go its independent course, with...
Página 41 - FROM distant climes, o'er wide-spread seas we come, Though not with much eclat, or beat of drum; True patriots all, for, be it understood, We left our country for our country's good...
Página 172 - ... Imperfect as all our statistics are confessed to be, it is doubtless true that the dangerous age for boys in reference to crime is constantly growing younger. It is safe to say that almost all crimes are committed by boys in their early teens or by those who began in effect a criminal career at that age. Saving criminals is, in the last analysis, only saving children; and saving children means not only saving criminals but their victims, too. Most of the criminals come from the cities and most...
Página 232 - Psychoneurosis [1.5%] includes those disorders in which mental forces or ideas of which the subject is either aware (conscious) or unaware (unconscious) bring about various mental and physical symptoms...

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