Annual ReportNew York State Reformatory at Elmira, 1898 - Prison administration |
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absolute release Amblyopia arithmetic astigmatism attention Auburn State Prison Average number awkward squad bath Board of Managers building cells cent Clinton State Prison condition Cons CONTROL DEFECTIVES crime criminal Dannemora demeanor Director Discharged disciplinary disease division earned Elmira Elmira Reformatory ending September 30 Ethics examination exercise expiration of maximum fact failed GROUP gymnasium habits Hospital Hyperopia improvement inch increased insane institution instruction instructor labor large number lecture lower first grade manual training marks Matteawan mechanical drawing ment Mental Arithmetic MENTAL QUICKENING metic military moral number of inmates number of pupils officers operation parole past period physician population practice present prisoners received reformation repairs Returned School of Letters second grade sentence September 30 Sloyd squad stenography strabismus subjects Superintendent supply taught teach term tion tool Total number trades-school transferred treatment tuberculosis Upper First Grade YORK STATE REFORMATORY
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Page 19 - Imposing such sentence shall not fix or limit the duration thereof. The term of such imprisonment of any person so convicted and sentenced shall be terminated by the board...
Page 19 - A woman between the ages of fifteen and thirty, convicted of a felony, who has not theretofore been convicted of a crime punishable by imprisonment in a state prison...
Page 6 - The s,aid board of managers shall also have power to establish rules and regulations under which prisoners within the reformatory may be allowed to go upon parole outside of the reformatory buildings and enclosure, but to remain while on parole in the legal custody and under the control of the board of managers and subject at any time to be taken back within the enclosure of said reformatory...
Page 2 - The term of such imprisonment of any person so convicted and sentenced shall be terminated by the managers of the reformatory, as authorized by this act, but such imprisonment shall not exceed" the maximum term provided by law for the crime for which the prisoner was convicted and sentenced.
Page 78 - A servant with this clause makes drudgery divine; who sweeps a room, as for thy laws, makes that and the action fine.
Page 19 - Any person who shall be convicted of an offense punishable by imprisonment in the New York State Reformatory at Elmira and who upon such conviction, shall be sentenced to imprisonment therein, shall be imprisoned according to this act and not otherwise, and the courts of this State imposing such sentence shall not fix or limit the duration thereof.
Page 6 - ... to retake and reimprison any convict so upon parole is hereby conferred upon said board, whose written order certified by its secretary shall be a sufficient warrant for all officers named in it to authorize such officers to return to actual custody any conditionally released or paroled prisoner, and it is hereby made the duty of all officers to execute said order the same as ordinary criminal process.
Page 53 - These tables are compiled from information relating to 11,293 of the 11,296 inmates indefinitely sentenced. Of one, an illiterate foreigner, no reliable data can be secured; another refused to give any information as to his family or past life, and the other became insane before he was interviewed. RELATING TO PARENTS OF INMATES...
Page 34 - The entire life of the prisoner should be directed, not left to the prisoner himself; all his waking hours and activities, bodily and mental habits, also, to the utmost possible extent, his emotional exercises. So thorough and rigorous should this be that unconscious cerebration, waking or sleeping, will go on under momentum of mental habits. There should be no time nor opportunity for the prisoner to revert to vicious characteristics.
Page 23 - The time has gone by when we seek to punish the criminal simply. Punishment as a deterrent has failed. We now seek to reform if we can, and to seclude for the protection of society if we cannot. Education and training in self-control and in the ability to do useful, wage-earning work, are at the basis of reform. Finally, whatever the system in any prison...