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- Title
THE COUNTY JAIL AND THE MISDEMEANANT PRISONER.
- Authors
Butler, Amos W.
- Abstract
This article presents information regarding the living style of the prisoners of Indiana County Jails. The county jail is a school. It is supported by the public. It is a school of crime. There the teachers, the older offenders, teach the pupils, the less experienced, all they know of criminal ways. The jail system of this country is condemned by its fruits. It is bad in Indiana. It is just as bad according to my information in other states. The Indiana Board of State Charities for near a third of a century called attention strongly to jail conditions and favored district workhouses operated by the state for convicted misdemeanants. By its provisions, the county jails and their prisoners are under the authority of the judges of the circuit or criminal courts. They are state officers. The judge can say where prisoners are to be confined and how they shall be quartered, fed, bathed and doctored. He can adopt rules for the conduct of both officers and prisoners and enter them in the order book of the court. They are to be enforced the same as other orders of the court.
- Subjects
INSTITUTIONALIZED persons; CORRECTIONAL institutions; CRIMINAL procedure; CHARITABLE uses, trusts, &; foundations; JUSTICE administration; CRIMINAL justice system
- Publication
Journal of Social Forces, 1924, Vol 2, Issue 2, p220
- ISSN
1532-1282
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/3005344