Live Questions Including Our Penal Machinery And Its Victims
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Aside from this provision, the time of their imprisonment depends upon their industry, good conduct, and proficiency in studies. They are made to understand that they can regain a place in society by deserving it. The pride, self-respect and ambition of the inmates is encouraged and stimulated by a system of marks most skillfully arranged, which results in classifying them into different grades, thus entitling them, as they advance, to enlarged privileges, greater confidence, and better and mor...e attractive clothing, and, finally, to release upon parole. INDETERMINATE SENTENCES. 241 The committee were struck with the frankness, cheerfulness, and manly conduct of the inmates, and the entire absence of that sullen and dogged indifference and abandomtient so univer- sal in prison life. "In general, we have none but words of commenda- tion for the reformatory work of the State reformatory. The experiment is being proved a success. Young men who have fallen into bad ways are being saved to homes, friends and society, instead of being crushed in spirit and prepared for deeper shame and greater crimes.
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