Special Report of the Board of State Commissioners for the General Supervision of Charitable, Penal, Pauper, and Reformatory InstitutionsW. S. George & Company, state printers, 1875 - 48 páginas |
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act of Feb agent amended amount apply Asylum behavior Board cause character Circuit Court Commissioners of Correction committed Comp conduct confinement contribute county court county jail county of Wayne county poor county superintendents county where convicted crime criminal laws custody detained detention Detroit House direct discharge discipline disorderly dollars duty dwelling effect enacted evil father forfeiture give bail guilty House of Correction imposed improvement inflicted injury Insane inspectors institution intent intoxication judge justices larceny Legislature liberty Maconechie Maconechie's measure of punishment ment misdemeanor moral Norfolk Island offenses named pauper fund penal penalties poor person pound weight practice prescribed present principles Prison prohibit protection punished by imprisonment purpose railroad rape reformation reformatory sentences relating relative repealed sexual intercourse Sir George Gipps Sir John Bowring society statutes supervision sureties tences term thereof tion township trees trial uncon Van Diemen's Land violation willfully
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Página 11 - ... 6. Any person committed to the common jail for not finding sureties for good behavior, may be discharged by any two justices of the peace of the county, upon giving such sureties for good behavior as were originally required from such offender.
Página 22 - If, through oversight or otherwise, any person be sentenced to imprisonment in the said reformatory for a definite period of time, said sentence shall not for that reason be void, but the person so sentenced shall be entitled to the benefit and subject to the liabilities of this act, in the same manner and to the same extent as if the sentence had been in the terms required...
Página 22 - The managers shall establish rules and regulations by which the standing of each prisoner's account of marks or credits shall be made known to him as often as once a month, and oftener if he shall, at any time, request it...
Página 22 - If it shall appear to said board of parole that there is reasonable probability that any prisoner so on parole will live and remain at liberty without violating the law, and that his absolute discharge from imprisonment is not incompatible with the welfare of society...
Página 22 - ... release is not incompatible with the welfare of society, then they shall issue to such prisoner an absolute release from imprisonment...
Página 32 - I also gave every man a small garden, which was a boon to the industrious, but none to the idle : those whom I camped out in the bush I encouraged also to rear pigs and poultry, thereby improving their ration, and, still more, infusing into them by the possession of property that instinctive respect for it which makes it safer in a community than any direct preservatives.
Página 22 - ... early social influences, as seem to indicate the constitutional and acquired defects and tendencies of the prisoner, and based upon these, an estimate of the then present condition of the prisoner and the best probable plan of treatment.
Página 28 - ... himself, to keep in the right path; and to stimulate his ardor, it is necessary first that his restoration to freedom should be held out as the reward of his success ; and, next, as Maconochie has forcibly urged, that he should have, from the first, some power of choice as regards his actions — a choice, the limits of which should widen with his progress in the art of self-government. On this part of the subject I have, on various occasions, entered into details. You have done me the honor...
Página 27 - ... to make it clear that he has adopted crime as his calling or profession ; or is his deviation from honesty an exception, and not made in pursuance of his rule of life ? All these, and many other points for consideration, will rise up in the mind of a thoughtful judge, but they assuredly will not be dealt with by any two minds so as to result in precisely the same infliction. And if we take into account the modifications of opinion which society undergoes from time to time, and observe its effects...
Página 28 - But as a cure cannot be predicted in any case with absolute certainty, and as, even if it could, the time required for its accomplishment cannot be measured in advance, I can perceive no rational alternative but that of sentences, undefined in extent. But how. it may be fairly asked, is the fact of cure to be ascertained ? As I have already intimated, all that can be aimed at is to secure a strong presumption in favor of reformation before the prisoner shall go free.