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The Prison and the Prisoner: A Symposium George Gordon Battle,Julia Kippen Jaffray No preview available - 2016 |
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Page 66 - Government, in its own defense, has aimed a death-blow at this gigantic evil, we are in favor, furthermore, of such an amendment to the Constitution, to be made by the people in conformity with its provisions, as shall terminate and forever prohibit the existence of slavery within the limits of the jurisdiction of the United States.
Page 53 - Amendment, which abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime, is too clear for argument. Slavery implies involuntary servitude — a state of bondage; the ownership of mankind as a chattel, or at least the control of the labor and services of one man for the benefit of another, and the absence of a legal right to the disposal of his own person, property and services.
Page 88 - That the convicts be employed exclusively in the manufacture of such supplies for the Government as can be manufactured without the use of machinery, and the prisoners shall not be worked outside the prison enclosure.
Page 74 - ... that contract, can elect at any time to break it, and no law or force compels performance or a continuance of the service. We need not stop to consider any possible limits or exceptional cases, such as the service of a sailor (Robertson v. Baldwin, 165 US 275, 17 Sup.
Page 170 - Congress should legislate to prevent the importation and sale of convict-made goods from one State into another without the consent of the State into which the goods are imported, or where they are sold.
Page 160 - States this increase is nearly three hundred and fifty per cent., due to the lower percentage of improved roads. This difference is slightly greater in comparing the other two groups in the table. The children of to-day are the electors, the representatives, the senators, the judges, one of them the president, of tomorrow. The population is increasing by leaps and bounds. If education means liberty, and if poor roads mean illiteracy or worse, have we a right not to build good roads, even if they...
Page 57 - State, in such manner, under such contract, and subject to such rules, regulations and discipline...
Page 101 - The chairman of the Planning and Research Committee is E. Stagg Whitin of the National Committee on Prisons and Prison Labor. Associated with him are Leon C. Faulkner, President, American Prison Association ; Charles D. Osborne, President, National Society of Penal Information; MM Barnard, Superintendent, penal institutions District of Columbia; Colonel Tenney Ross, USA, Commandant Disciplinary Barracks...
Page 75 - ... condition of being a convict lawfully under sentence and the fact that said convict was compelled to work pursuant to the contract made under the statute. As we have seen, the alleged direct control by the contractor is not present The plaintiff's inability to dispose of his person, property, and services is in no way due to the contract of which he complains, but is an Incident of his condition as a convict. Then, on the other hand, there are present rights which are not those of a slave, as...
Page 167 - ... prison, by or for individuals or companies to whom such materials may belong, to be manufactured at fixed prices for the labor bestowed upon them, to be paid by the owner of the goods to the agent of the said prison, for the use of...