Word: prisoners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...your Aug. 19 issue, p. 10, under "Crime," you state that one of Superintendent of Prisons Sanford Bates' "methods for relieving prison congestion is to increase paroles now limited by the scarcity of probation officers. President Hoover last week promised him more of these officers." This is all correct, but your readers may be confused as others I know have been, into thinking that Mr. Bates' recommendation, which the President is backing, means the release from the Federal prisons sooner and oftener. This is not the idea at all. Superinintendent Bates is recommending as the National Probation Association has been...
...some courts, it has been found that at least 25% of convicted offenders can safely and successfully be dealt with under probation super instead of commitment. . . . It is now proposed by our progressive Superintendent of Federal prisons, backed by our equally efficient President Hoover, to increase the investment in individual treatment and reclamation of young offenders in the courts before they are sent to prison. It is hoped that at least one paid probation officer will be placed in every Federal court and that in the larger courts, which handle thousands of these cases, there may be several officers...
When the news reached the press, George S. Wilson, District Director of Public Welfare, ordered the rides to cease. Edward L. McNamara, another trusty, now rides with the prison doctor. Morris Massa Barnard, superintendent...
...were started. Other memories, joggled, also led to recognition. Soon the Capital was rife with rumors that Harry Ford Sinclair, convict in the District of Columbia Jail, was riding through the streets in a motor car. The jail officials were questioned. They admitted that for two months Convict Sinclair, prison pharmacist, had been detailed to accompany the jail physicians to the city wharfs to attend prisoners working there...
Among the deepest of the sleepers last week, was the chairman of a great oil company who slept the sleep of the just, weary from his pharmaceutical labors in the dispensary of the Federal jail in Washington, D. C. Not only the cloistered seclusion of prison walls but trust in his company's progress protected his rest. For, while Harry F. Sinclair slept and while he worked, plans were going forward for enlarging his company's outlets...