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- Title
PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN PRISON ASSOCIATION CONGRESS.
- Authors
Spalding, Warren F.
- Abstract
The article presents information about proceedings of the annual meeting of the American Prison Association, which has been organized at Indianapolis, Indiana on October, 11-16, 1913. Its annual meeting at Indianapolis is one of the most effective it has ever held. Great changes in the membership of the association, and of the subjects discussed were noticed by those who have been familiar with the meetings of its earlier days. The topics discussed have also changed. Thirty years ago they were considering interstate extradition, prison labor, county jails, prison punishments, industrial education, the incorrigible criminal, etc. Into their places have come subjects which had not then been thought of. The prison labor question is no longer worth debating. It has been solved by the then undiscovered public-use system. The dark solitary, with bread and water as a punishment, has been supplanted in many of the foremost institutions. Central in these changes has been the comparatively new idea that prisoners are to be thought of as men, rather than as criminals, and their future, rather than their past, must have prominence in prison administration.
- Subjects
INDIANAPOLIS (Ind.); INDIANA; CONFERENCES &; conventions; PRISONS; ASSOCIATIONS, institutions, etc.; PRISON administration; PUNISHMENT
- Publication
Journal of the American Institute of Criminal Law & Criminology, 1914, Vol 4, Issue 5, p724
- ISSN
0885-4173
- Publication type
Article