Word: prisoners
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Three prizes are offered by Adolph Lewisohn, president of the National Committee on Prisons, for the best theses on phases of the prison problem, prepared by students in preparatory schools, colleges and universities throughout the United States. One prize of $50 will be awarded for the best Master's thesis. Two prizes of $25 each will be presented to the author of the best undergraduate essay and to the preparatory school student who writes the best essay on the subject...
...National Committee on Prisons announces the award of the prize offered by Mr. Lewisohn last year to three students of Columbia University, New York University and Barnard College respectively. The prize of $50 for a Master's thesis was won by Miss Blanche Rosenthal, of Columbia, the subject of her thesis being "The History of Punishment for Murder." Mr. Harry Berlin, of New York University, was awarded the $25 prize for an undergraduate essay on "Prison Problems," and the other prize of $25 was won by Miss Lucy J. Hayner, of Barnard College, for an essay on "The Prison Farm...
...Monthly, has sailed for Copenhagen, as private secretary with Warwick Greene '01, chairman of the Rockefeller Foundation in France, on the Oscar H. After spending a month with a German family to learn the language they will make a tour of the warring nations, to investigate the prison camps. They are particularly interested in the work that the Y. M. C. A. is doing in these camps all over Europe...
...Then capital punishment was largely done away with, and the problem of prison reform entered in. Conditions changed so that a few years ago the prisons almost all had the honor system. The men worked together in silence and separated at night. Some few 'trusties' were allowed to go outside the walls to do menial labor. But it was not a success; it was in fact a distinct failure. Two-thirds of the graduates from the prisons came back for another term, and most of the rest did not return only because they were too clever to be caught...
...Then a few years ago the governor of New York appointed a committee for prison reform, of which I was made chairman. We began to study the situation by getting the criminal's point of view, and for this purpose I went to prison for a week...