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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...
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...
...heels of a White House messenger who, just eight years ago, handed a certificate to a fresh-faced young California woman at the Department of Justice in Washington. The certificate showed that President Harding had appointed Mabel Walker Willebrandt to be Assistant U. S. Attorney-General in charge of prison conditions, tax cases, Prohibition prosecution. Prohibition was barely a year and a half old. With three assistants Mrs. Willebrandt's division was the Department's smallest. That year saw 10,000 Prohibition arrests. In the field were 608 U. S. Dry agents, operating on an appropriation...
...might have terminated as an internal company dispute. But Promoter Montgomery mailed Airvia prospectuses which intimated that the company would earn $2,430,000 per year. In its first three weeks of operation it earned only $8,000. The flyers told the postal authorities, disclosed Promoter Montgomery's prison record (five years at Atlanta for using the mails to defraud...