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- Title
THE MISSOURI PENITENTIARY.
- Authors
Ellwood, Charles A.
- Abstract
The article presents information about various problems related to the Missouri penitentiary. The Missouri penitentiary situation illustrates well the difficulties which the old fashioned type of prison creates in the administration of the criminal law. For a long number of years the Missouri penitentiary at Jefferson City has been conducted upon the basis of the contract system, and has been a paying institution, as a rule turning into the state treasury thousands of dollars in earnings every year. All attempts even to secure radical investigation of the institution and its needs have failed in recent years, owing to the feeling that giving full publicity to such facts would be unfair and even disloyal to the state. Thus Missouri, like a number of other states, finds itself still burdened with an institution conducted according to ideas which are at least twenty-five years behind the time. People say that the system, not individuals, is to blame. This, however, needs to be modified to the extent of saying that the Missouri penitentiary authorities for the last dozen years, instead of leading in the work of prison reform, as they might reasonably be expected to do, have been content to defend their institution. They have, indeed, considered every attack upon the institution to be an attack upon themselves.
- Subjects
MISSOURI; PRISON administration; CRIMINAL law; PRISONS; PUBLIC law; CORRECTIONAL institutions
- Publication
Journal of the American Institute of Criminal Law & Criminology, 1914, Vol 4, Issue 5, p644
- ISSN
0885-4173
- Publication type
Article