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...most successful prison reformer in the country, Thomas Mott Osborne '84, will speak this evening in Peabady Hall, Phillips Brooks House at 8 o'clock on "Crime and Criminals". This lecture, which is open to all members of the University only, is being given under the auspices of the Harvard Christian Association...
...Osborne's career has been devoted to a struggle for reform in various fields' of human activity, crowned by his successful battle with the reactionary prison administrators which had formerly possessed complete control over most prisons in the United States...
...until later in life that Mr. Osborne became actively interested in the problems of prison reform. In 1913 he was appointed chairman of the New York Commission on Prison Reform, which went into a thorough investigation of conditions then prevailing in New York state prisons and elsewhere throughout the country. During this investigation Mr. Osborne spent a week in the Auburn prison as a convict. His report which he issued after his experiences there gained, him nation wide prominence for the first time, and soon after he was appointed Warden of Sing Sing Prison...
Since that time Mr. Osborne has had more experience with crime and criminals. He served as Commander of the Noval Prison at Portsmouth, N. H. from August 1917 to March 1920, when he was relieved at his own request
Always a progressive, Mr. Osborne has from the first met with violent opposition from the old school of prison administrators. He was appointed warden of Sing Sing Prison in December, 1914. He wiped out the rank corruption among the officials and improved the unbearable living conditions of the inmates, but his activities aroused jealousy and fear among his political opponents, who made an attempt to remove him from his position...