Report of Proceedings, Volume 1917American Correctional Association, 1917 - Correctional institutions Proceedings for 1884 and 1885 include report of conference of prison officials, Chicago, 1884, separately paged. |
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Page 16 - In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below. We are the Dead. Short days ago We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, Loved and were loved, and now we lie. In Flanders fields.
Page 310 - An act to revise and consolidate the laws relative to the state prison, to the state house of correction, and branch of the state prison in the upper peninsula, and to the house of correction and reformatory at Ionia, and the government and discipline thereof and to repeal all acts inconsistent therewith," being section 800.49 of the Compiled Laws of 1948.
Page 50 - It is a kind of quackery in government, and argues a want of solid skill, to apply the same universal remedy, the ultimnm svpplicinm, to every case of difficulty.
Page 3 - The improvement of the penal, correctional and reformatory institutions throughout the country, and of the government, management and discipline thereof, including the appointment of boards of trustees and of other officers.
Page 109 - ... under said board, nor shall the working of convicts on public roads, or public works, or by any levee board ever interfere with the preparation for or the cultivation of any crop which it may be intended shall be cultivated by the said convicts, nor interfere with the good management of the State farm, nor put the State to any expense.
Page 48 - This is not by way of atonement or expiation for the crime committed ; for that must be left to the just determination of the Supreme Being : but as a precaution against future offences of the same kind.
Page 49 - Lastly, as a conclusion to the whole, we may observe that punishments of unreasonable severity, especially when indiscriminately inflicted, have less effect in preventing crimes, and amending the manners of a people, than such as are more merciful in general, yet properly intermixed with due distinctions of severity.
Page 109 - AD 1894, save as authorized In the next section, nor shall any previous lease or hiring of convicts extend beyond that date ; and the Legislature shall abandon the system of such leasing or hiring as much sooner than the date mentioned as may be consistent with the economic safety of the state.
Page 213 - To promote the well-being and advance the civilization of the peoples of the United States and its territories and possessions and of foreign lands in the acquisition and dissemination of knowledge; in the prevention of suffering; and in the promotion of any and all the elements of human progress.
Page 298 - ... assume a leadership in recommending fit men for judicial appointment or election; and "WHEREAS the Bar though willing, is somewhat puzzled as to the best method to pursue in assuming such leadership; and "WHEREAS several methods, largely experimental, are now being tried, with varying success: "Now, BE IT RESOLVED, That the President be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to appoint a Committee of five members to consider and recommend a plan to the next annual meeting, whereby this Association...