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si .THE OGDEN STANDARD, OGDEN, UTAH, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16 1913 S ) aiDlfpyi ' BOYS IN PRISON i Contact With the Viciou$ Im pels Youths to Life of Crime. J PROBATION EFFECTIVE Vork of Alberta, Canada, Superintendent Outlined Before Association. Indianapolis, Oct. 15. Youthful Criminals should not be confined In prisons, where contact with the vi clous will Impel them to a life of crime, but should be given work in the open, work of the kind to which they are naturally inclined, is the opinion of FL B. Chadwlck, superin tendent of Dependent and Neglected Children for Alberta, Canada. Mr Chadwick's views were voiced before the American Prison associa tion, at fts annual meeting here, in an address today entitled "Outside Work as a Preventive Measure and k ts a Reformatory Method" The growth of outside work in prisons, 3 f Mr. Chadwick asserted, is productive el justice toward boys and men which cannot be overestimated. The basis of luch a system, he continued, should be common sence. On the one hand he said, a system founded purely on sentiment will prove unsatisfactory ! tad Ineffectual, on the other hand, ' practical, sound administration hAS I brought out that too close incarcera tion has often fostered a spirit of rebellion. In part, Mr Chadwlck said Probation Effective. "Probation has done more work as j g preventive agent in dealing with young offenders than any other scheme yet devised. Probation in dealing with the hardened type of criminal is futile and useless, as I through the probation system the cri minal succeeds in getting lenient ' treatment without proper supervision of bis surroundings. "There II a group of offenders who are not hardened criminals, but who have to be taken care of. This group forms the largest of any of the vari oua classes that have to be dealt with under criminal law They are not fj sufficiently hardened to be considered as criminals, but they have gone be yond the stage when they can be considered as possible of correction under the system of probation When i boy or young man has fallen down under probation, and has become an occasional offender, and it hae been itemed advisable to deal with him by same more rigid form of correction than probation offers, the reformatory method has been used with great sue cess "The boy i6 brought before the ju venile or district court in Canada, and handed over to the department of ne fleeted children, as a neglected child, ind placed out to work under the supervision of an agent or inspector of the department. His earning ca pacity must be guarded, as he is li able to be exploited by unprincipled employers of child labor, unftss an agreement is .entered into and ar ! raagements made as to the particular amount of monev he is to receive in M addition to hoard and clothing The money is placed to the account of the officer who haB charge of the bo? and a receipt given for each sum de posited or expended, in order that the amount may be Justly accounted for Iln the final settlement with the lad." Mr. Chadwlck outlined the work In Alberta which is being done under his supervision. It was Just as import ant. he said, to find the particular Sort of work for which a youthful criminal is naturally fitted as It was wk to find work at all The farm had solved the question In many instau 8 ces, but not in all The work at the 1 prison farm, he added, was watched p by the provincial authorities and un doubtedly would be copied by the pro B vinclal Jails in the near future. In if conclusion, he said' "The basis of such a system should S- be common sense. A theory which takes only sentiment as a basis will B fall down and prove unsatisfactory vi and BQ06t ineffectual; on the other If hand, practical, sound administration I haB often proved that too close lncar jl ceratlon has brought out a certain spirit of rebellion, and outside work B has developed the principles which H go to make a right man, and results H in the recognition of the sense of hu n man weakness, in many instances dor B mant, but in the caBe of almost all boy 6 easily get-at-able. To help B the boy or the man it is as necessary p to know bis weakness as It is to know B: his strength "The cost of such a scheme is com H paratively small, as both boys and adults can be handled with a great deal less money under this system than any other. Outside work in ani form has proved an enormous deter rent to crime, particularly in inclpt Kent stages, and properly handled will likely prove the solution to the proh lem of tho vagabonds and first of fenders, both of Juvenile and add I i type" Indianapolis, Oct 15 The commit tee on reformatory work and parole. In its report to the annual meeting of the American Prison association to I day, dwelt upon the need of greater specialism in criminal work and the segregation of different classes ot IB law breakers. The petty offender, often young, weak and impression able, it recommends, should not be (objected to the dangers of associa tion with hardened criminals. "There is an Insidious danger,' says rtf the report "that must be Insisted up H on in the classification and treatment MFI of offenders. It is admitted that in percentage of evil doers rertaln B ameliorating clrcumstanr -s limit the J responsibility of the individual though ; they make him none the Icsb dan I gerous to society, most Important of Iff these is an Inherent pathology, n I on i. dltlon of the body, especially of the 1 central nervous system a condition either hereditary or accidental; sec I ondly, an unfavorable environment, ee N Peclally In early life. It Is partlcu , Urly in these cases that classification and isolation is desirable. Our dan B. T liM ln accepting a criminal type in looking upon pathological, envir mm onmental and hereditary factors as the jjfll "O'e causes of criminality certain! B re predisposing causes, but in most caseB they are not the necessary causes. Appeal to Higher Faculties. "The necessary cause of the ma jority of criminal acts is the choice of the individual's free will There fore to correct the criminal tendency the only method of approach is by way of the individual's higher facul ties In the philosophical aspect this Is the province of morality, and the practical application of morality is the function of religion. Religion ap peals to the personal responsibility of the individual; unless this feeling is awakened any hope for a permanent cure is futile." The committee emphasized the ben efits of the probation system, the in determinate sentence and the parole Each year, It was said, endorsed the wisdom of these reforms "The war den or superintendent advocates more and more earnestly that when prac ticable every effort be put forth to save offenders of the law from fur ther evil doing without committing to prison or reformatory. There Is no class so opposed to prisons, by whatever name called. aB those whose duty it is to superintendent them; it is the indifferent public who stol Idly look on while their members drift into prison." Should Extend System. The report recommends that the present system of medical inspection of schoolG be extended so that the state 6hall not resign supervision over the defective claeB after they pass the stage of compulsory educa tion. "This Is the time when all our ma chinery should be perfected to safe guard our children especially do I plead It for our girls the community knows, it needs' no repetition here, that the unprotected feeble minded girl Is a greater eouce of evil in a community than a youth of the same claBS "Institutions for women of which 1 have any knowledge, if the lament able results of neglect of this class were taken out of them, would show an amazing decrease ln their popula tion Even with careful provision for sufficient custodial care of this class of weak minded, there will be a per centage that will slip through, and for this reason, if no other, there should be the examination into the social mental and moral conditions of those brought before tbe courts be fore sentence is passed upon them by the magistrate or Judge.' oo FIXING PENALTY FOR jRIINALS No Judge Has Right to Say "The Soul That Sinneth Shall Die' MORAL DISORDERS Sentences Should Be Indeter minate Punishment With Reformation Its Object. Indianapolis, Oct. 15 No human Judge can fix intelligently the penalty a criminal should pay for his crime, in the opinion of W. H. Berry, for six years a member of the Iowa Board of Parole, and only "the judge of all the earth has a right to say, 'the soul thai sinneth, it Bhall die'" Nor should punishment be the ob ject of enforcing penalties, according to Mr. Berry, rather, punishment should be an Indirect retsult with re formation the object. For one pris oner may have but moral whooping enough and may soon be cured, while another may be a moral leper and may never be cured; yet both may bo discharged together under the pres ent method of administering justice in many Btates. Moral Disorders. The palliative for tho long train of moral disorders that lie in the trail of the fixed sentence, in Mr. Berry 6 opinion, la the indeterminate sen tence In hl6 address today before the American Prison association. Mr. Berry so asserted, adding that it would be better still for judges simply to sentence criminals to Imprisonment and leave to another tribunal, infer entlally the Board or Parole, the task of determining how long the senten ces should be "To accomplish most successfully the things desired in the enforcement ot the law, the Indeterminate sen tence ln fact as well as in name, I conceive to be a necessity." Mr. Ber ry said. "First, because Judges can not fix intelligently the amount of penalty a law violator should pav; second, because the penalty one man should have to pay for an offeuse is no criterion from which to judge what another man should pay for a similar offense unlesB all the conditions are the same, third, because there are some persons convicted of crime who should by reason of the nature of the crime they committed or the impossi bility of reformation, and for the good of society be Isolated indefin itely and possibly for life A mk r t i i a wnpiinn unnnown, "The average criminal is an un known man to the grand Jurors who Indicted him. to the county attorney who prosecuted him. to tbe Jurors by whose verdict he was found guilty, and the Judge who pronounced the sentence. 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"No man can determine how much punishment 6hould be vlBited on bis fellow man as a punishment for his offense. Aa said above, there is punishment Inflicted In the enforcing of penalties to prevent repeUtlon, to deter others and become a willing ob server of the law Such punishment inheres in the enforcing of these penalties for the accomplishment of the other object. Tbe Almighty alaa? hab a right to punish lor punishment sake. Length of Senterces "The courts of the land should, uf ter giving to an accused man all rea sonable safeguards in the investiga tion of the charge of crime against him. determine his guilt and the!) sen tence him to Imprisonment without limit as to time and thpn leave it to another tribunal to determine when he has ben sufficiently punished, when he has served long enouph to I impress on others the seriousness of the clleuse and operate to deter oth ers, when it will probably be safe to society to release him, to keep In custody Indefinitely such as by thHi i conduct have forfeited all right to I associate w ith their fellows aud BUCn others as do not give satisfactory ev idence of repentance nnd reformation The keeping of man In custody for life Is not necessarily punishment. It is the state protecting itself from the evil Influence of a man who has pror en himself a menace (o It, and in whom thra no such hope of refor- mation as would Justify his release among his fellows. Moral Diseases. "There are men ln all prisons ho have only moral whooping cough, oth- j ers the measies. scarlet (eer, dipb fherla. tuberculosis, leprosy, and nel tber patient nor society will be bene flted by paroling out the moral leper Those suffering from the minor trou bles should as soon as they have giv ' en evidence of recovery and been in Careers tad lonj enough to impress them with the seriousness of their ol I fenae and to operate to deter otheu l from like offenses be allowed their liberty under safeguards which will as best we can nuard against relapses. While such as 'Jo not should, as In the case of ph.vBkol and mental derange ment, be kept In charge of the sta'? and Isolated from their felloes And many a man Indulges in hors plajr ho does n t play the races. oo & Read the Classified Ads. Jr