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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... tion a list of the names of the prominent citizens of their respec- tive counties , to whom the reports and miscellaneous documents of the association may be sent . 10. It is the policy of The Prison Association , and has been from its ...
... tion a list of the names of the prominent citizens of their respec- tive counties , to whom the reports and miscellaneous documents of the association may be sent . 10. It is the policy of The Prison Association , and has been from its ...
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... tion has been devised , inexpensive in its operation and of unquali- fied usefulness . As a result of this conference the Bertillon sys- tem was adopted at once in the police department of New York city , and a little later there was ...
... tion has been devised , inexpensive in its operation and of unquali- fied usefulness . As a result of this conference the Bertillon sys- tem was adopted at once in the police department of New York city , and a little later there was ...
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... tion , abolished productive labor in the State prisons and other penal institutions , after January 1 , 1897. By this action , the most enlightened prison law that has ever been placed upon the statute books of this or any other State ...
... tion , abolished productive labor in the State prisons and other penal institutions , after January 1 , 1897. By this action , the most enlightened prison law that has ever been placed upon the statute books of this or any other State ...
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... tion the building was littered greatly , but was clean . The sani- tary arrangements are excellent . There are new and perfect water closets at the end of each corridor . There is no associa- tion of the prisoners . Such facilities for ...
... tion the building was littered greatly , but was clean . The sani- tary arrangements are excellent . There are new and perfect water closets at the end of each corridor . There is no associa- tion of the prisoners . Such facilities for ...
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... tion of the commissioners of charities and correction . Of this number of eight hundred and forty - four detained at the work- house , a considerable portion of the women were engaged in making convict clothing . A number of men were at ...
... tion of the commissioners of charities and correction . Of this number of eight hundred and forty - four detained at the work- house , a considerable portion of the women were engaged in making convict clothing . A number of men were at ...
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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.