Word: portsmouth
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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This principle is the basis of all Mr. Osborne's work, and he has had an opportunity to show that it can be worked out among those who are supposed to be least capable of acquiring any ideal, the criminal class. In the Sing Sing, Auburn, and Portsmouth prisons, he has proved the principle, though conditions prevented carrying it out fully. The prisoners, bound together in a league that made them responsible to and for one another, preserved their own discipline and left the prison much less antagonistic to society than when they entered...
...Portsmouth naval prison presented the most difficulties and hindrances possible to such a plan from the nature of the Congressional ruling regarding military prisoners. Formerly sailors who had served a sentence at Portsmouth could not return to the service and were thrown on their recources, branded criminals often for offences of comparatively slight importance. Commander Osborne, however, secured a channel for pardons, and instilling into his men a spirit of good citizenship, sent 2700 of them back into the service, after shortened terms, during his three years in office. A very small proportion of these men, despite the prejudice...
...lieutenant-governor of New York, delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1896, and to two New York State Conventions. He is best known, however, for his fearless work in reforming Sing-Sing Prison. Until his resignation last week he was Commandant of the United States Naval Prison at Portsmouth, where he had great success in introducing a method of self-government by the prisoners, which gained for the convicts who had served their terms the privilege of re-entering the service, where over 80 per cent have made good...
...meeting of the Board of Overseers at 2 o'clock, after which he will be escorted out to Cambridge by several members of the Governing Board of the Union. He leaves for New York tonight at 12 o'clock and will proceed to Washington tomorrow. Mr. Roosevelt was in Portsmouth, N. H., yesterday, inspecting the naval yards there...
...full personnel and positions of the dance committee is as follows: Chairman, James Arnold Lowell, Jr., of Chestnut Hill; secretary, John Sise, of Portsmouth, N. H.; treasurer, Edward Lawrence Pierson, Jr., of Salem; invitations, Henry Russell Atkinson, of Brookline; patronesses, George Cabot Lee, of Westwood; music, Isador Straus, of New York, N. Y.; Union and supper, George Storer Baldwin, Jr., of Chestnut Hill...