Annual Report, Volume 15, Parts 1877-1891New York State Reformatory at Elmira, 1877 - Prison administration |
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absolutely released appropriation Arithmetic asylum average Bellerophon Board of Managers boilers buildings capital cent character Chemung county common condition convict Correspondence and conduct course courts crime criminal custody D. R. FORD Discharged by expiration duty earned Elmira College employment examination expenditure expiration of maximum formatory furnished give Henry Henry Beauclerc hundred imprisonment inclosure Indefinites industries insane institution instruction Intermediate JANUARY 18 labor lectures Legislature maintenance maximum term mental mind moral north wing offenders officers period person Peter the Hermit practical present prison prison labor Prof progress Provision account pupils purpose received reformation Reformatory at Elmira returned rooms sent sentence sentence law September 30 society statement steam Superintendent supply teachers teaching Telegraphy tion total number Transferred whole number William Rufus William the Conqueror writing YORK STATE REFORMATORY
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Page 39 - And if thy right eye causeth thee to stumble, pluck it out, and cast it from thee : for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not thy whole body be cast into hell.
Page 36 - 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 52 - If two triangles have two sides of the one equal to two sides of the...
Page 60 - RULE. Divide as in whole numbers, and from the right hand of the quotient point off as many places for decimals as the decimal places in the dividend exceed those in the divisor.
Page 84 - Board, and subject at any time to be taken back within the inclosure of said institution ; and full power to enforce such rules and regulations, and 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 therein, to authorize such officer to return to actual custody any conditionally released or paroled prisoner...
Page 12 - The board of managers shall, under a system of marks or otherwise, fix upon a uniform plan under which they shall determine what number of marks, or what credit shall be earned by each prisoner sentenced under the provisions of this act, as the condition of increased privileges, or of release from their control, which system shall be subject, to revision from time to time. Each prisoner so sentenced shall be credited...
Page 102 - ... 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 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 2 - When it appears to the said managers that there is a strong or reasonable probability that any prisoner will ,live and remain at liberty without violating the law, and that his release is not incompatible with the welfare of society...
Page 35 - Reformatory, which appropriation shall be paid by the Treasurer, on the warrant of the Comptroller, upon the requisition of the board of managers, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Page 60 - Multiply as in whole numbers, and from the right hand of the product point off as many figures for decimals as there are decimal places in both factors.