Report of the Prison Association of New York, Issue 5126th, 1870, appendix: Transactions of the National Congress on Penitentiary and Reformatory Discipline [Cincinnati, 1870] Includes "Catalogue of works on criminal law, penology and prison discipline" (p. 588-622) |
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... entitled thereto . 2. To visit frequently the prisons under their charge , and to endeavor to improve both the physical and moral condition of the prisoners in all suitable and practicable ways . IX . It shall be the duty of the ...
... entitled thereto . 2. To visit frequently the prisons under their charge , and to endeavor to improve both the physical and moral condition of the prisoners in all suitable and practicable ways . IX . It shall be the duty of the ...
Page 101
... entitled to a trial by jury , and if he had been convicted , the law fixed a limit to the term of his imprison- ment . In fact , he had been convicted of perjury by a judge of a petty court , and for it sentenced to imprisonment for an ...
... entitled to a trial by jury , and if he had been convicted , the law fixed a limit to the term of his imprison- ment . In fact , he had been convicted of perjury by a judge of a petty court , and for it sentenced to imprisonment for an ...
Page 145
... entitled to help , he is given the reason for denial . We try to make every man believe that he is worth saving as a man , not that he is a pauper and beneath us , A few warm words of encouragement and a hearty hand 10 PRISON ...
... entitled to help , he is given the reason for denial . We try to make every man believe that he is worth saving as a man , not that he is a pauper and beneath us , A few warm words of encouragement and a hearty hand 10 PRISON ...
Page 157
... entitled " An act for the better regulation of the county and State prisons of the State , and consolidating and amending the existing laws in relation thereto , " passed December 14 , 1847 , " three - fifths being present , " as ...
... entitled " An act for the better regulation of the county and State prisons of the State , and consolidating and amending the existing laws in relation thereto , " passed December 14 , 1847 , " three - fifths being present , " as ...
Page 179
... entitled to the same , and for such money as the said convict may have so deposited or by any other person for him or them , he , she , or they shall be entitled to receive interest at the rate of six per cent . from the time of such ...
... entitled to the same , and for such money as the said convict may have so deposited or by any other person for him or them , he , she , or they shall be entitled to receive interest at the rate of six per cent . from the time of such ...
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Page 239 - ... the college of physicians and surgeons in the city of New York...
Page 681 - AN ACT to amend chapter four hundred and ten of the laws of eighteen hundred and eighty-two, entitled " An Act to consolidate into one act and to declare the special and local laws affecting public interests in the City of New York.
Page 893 - January, in the year one thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven, no person in any such prison, penitentiary, jail or reformatory, shall be required or allowed to work, while under sentence thereto, at any trade. Industry or occupation, wherein or whereby his work, or the product or profit of his work, shall be fanned out, contracted, given or sold to any person, firm, association or corporation.
Page 889 - ... to their years and capacities ; and they shall have power in their discretion to bind out the said children with their consent as apprentices or servants during their minority, to such persons, and at such places, to learn such proper trades and employments as in their judgment will be most for the reformation and .amendment, and the future benefit and advantage of such children...
Page 895 - The Legislature shall provide for a state board of charities, which shall visit and inspect all institutions, whether state, county, municipal, incorporated or not incorporated, which are of a charitable, eleemosynary, correctional or reformatory character...
Page 896 - Sheriffs shall hold no other office and be ineligible for the next term after the termination of their offices. They may be required by law to renew their security, from time to time; and in default of giving such new security, their offices shall be deemed vacant. But the county shall never be made responsible for the acts of the sheriff.
Page 894 - This section shall not be construed to prevent the Legislature from providing that convicts may work for, and that the products of their labor may be disposed of to, the State or any political division thereof...
Page 190 - ... between the first day of November and the first day of April...
Page 332 - One of the persons so appointed shall hold his office for one year, one for two years, one for three years, one for four years, one for five years, one for six years...
Page 885 - York shall be in law capable of purchasing, holding and conveying any estate real or personal for the use of the said corporation.