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...York, N. Y., June 2--The decision of Harvard University to inaugurate next fall a training course for prison wardens, the executive heads of penal and similar institutions, seems likely to meet with the hearty approval of penologists. Two of the most active men in the field in the vicinity of New York, Warden Lewis E. Lawes of Sing Sing and Commissioner of Corrections Richard C. Patterson, Jr. of New York City, today were enthusiastic over the possibilities of such a course, according to the New York Evening Post...
Warden Lawes hailed the departure as bringing into the prison administration field a new class of men who, possessing intelligence as well as a humanitarian background, will adopt the work as a career to replace the haphazard political appointees serving as wardens in almost all prisons outside of New York State...
...fact that Harvard is doing that," he said, "recognizes the need for competence and intelligence in prison direction. The man so trained, mostly in theory I take it, could then step into practical prison work better equipped for intelligent direction...
...Dignity Prison Work...
...probation throughout the country will cooperate by affording training facilities, and by placing our graduates where they will have an oppor- tunity to develop: If communities recognize the great importance of correctional work, they will so compensate the positions that they will attract and hold well educated professional men. Prison work should be dignified...