Penology in the United StatesJohn C. Winston, 1921 - 344 Seiten |
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Seite 330 - Law, and to the benefit of such of the English Statutes as existed on the Fourth day of July, seventeen hundred and seventy-six; and which, by experience, have been found applicable to their local and other circumstances, and have been introduced, used and practiced by the Courts of Law or Equity...
Seite 216 - Congress, or the Governor of a State, or the President of the United States, and...
Seite 325 - An Account of the principal Lazarettos in Europe ; with various Papers relative to the Plague ! together with further observations on some Foreign Prisons and Hospitals, and additional Remarks on the present state of those in Great Britain and Ireland.
Seite 63 - Cherbury gives an interesting account of the education of a highly-born youth at the end of the sixteenth and the beginning of the seventeenth century.
Seite 137 - Correct government is founded on the principle of the greatest good to the greatest number...
Seite 128 - Reformatory all male criminals, between the ages of sixteen and thirty years, and not known to have been previously sentenced to a state prison or penitentiary on conviction for a felony, in this or any other state or country...
Seite 58 - An Act for suppression and punishing of Rogues, Vagabonds, common Beggars, and other lewd, idle and disorderly Persons. And also for setting the Poor to Work.
Seite 224 - ... incorrigibility shall not be counted toward the time for which his sentence may run. Thus, in all the State institutions, is the aim of the indeterminate sentence defeated by the policy of the paroling authority. The inmate of the State Prison regards the minimum sentence imposed by the court as his actual sentence. The maximum prescribed has no meaning for him. The few months that may be added to the minimum by the authorities of the institution, he regards as so much additional punishment imposed...
Seite 36 - English statutes, as existed at the time of their first emigration, and which, by experience, have been found applicable to their local and other circumstances, and of such others as have been since made in England, or Great Britain, and have been introduced, used and practised by the courts of law or equity...
Seite 38 - In these jails it is hardly too much to say that many of the features linger which called forth the wrath and indignation of the great Howard at the end of the eighteenth century.