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- Title
THE IDEAL PRISON SYSTEM.
- Authors
Foss, Eugene N.
- Abstract
The article presents information about ideal prison system. After three years of practical contact as governor with the administration of the prison system the article author is convinced that it is still the weakest spot in the form of government. Nor do he hopes to see this condition permanently changed through any political organization. The change must come, as it is coining in Massachusetts, through an awakened public conscience. The penal administration of a state, with its hundreds of henchmen, forms in itself a powerful political machine. Then there is the still greater political power of the local and county institutions, with their thousands of retainers and favorites. Political control of all this machinery is, in some cases, enough to insure political control of the state. Imprisonment was inflicted upon the first group as a penalty for their law-breaking. The second group were sentenced only to small money penalties, and suffered imprisonment only for being temporarily poor. The courts did not consider that they deserved imprisonment. Otherwise they would have been committed in the first instance.
- Subjects
PRISON administration; IMPRISONMENT; PUNISHMENT; CRIMINAL sentencing; CRIMINAL justice system; PRISONS
- Publication
Journal of the American Institute of Criminal Law & Criminology, 1914, Vol 4, Issue 5, p674
- ISSN
0885-4173
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/1132646