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Thomas Mott Osborne '84, famous prison reformer, will speak in Peabody Hall. Phillips Brooks House, at 8 o'clock Monday night. His subject will be "The Purpose of Prisons" and the lecture will be open to all members of the University.
Stanley Baldwin, British Conservative, has a son-Oliver. By the ironic fate which decrees such matters, Oliver is a socialist. Last week he published a book Six Prisons and Two Revolutions, the story of his gruesome experiences in Anatolia and Transcaucasia in 1920, and 1921. Extracts:
A year or so ago when Attorney General (now Associate Justice) Stone came into office, he ordered that every effort be made to clear up the large number of Prohibition cases in arrears before the courts. The effort was made. Mail)7 convictions resulted. Now the result is being felt...
Her conclusions: "Every prisoner feared the law, and hated it for the punishment it imposed. There is a dread that the fear of prison causes which I am now convinced is beneficial. I formerly thought prisons out of date, but now have changed my viewpoint. They serve a very useful...
"The only method which will stop crime consists of these three principles, certainty of arrest, promptness of trial, and a prison system which reforms the criminal. The method now in use in various prisons, to create such a prison system, was suggested originally by a criminal himself. It is the...