Lanterna Rally

Author: Stuart Alfred Queen

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2015-06-25

Total Pages: 174

ISBN-13: 9781330373576

Excerpt from The Passing of the County Jail: Individualization of Misdemeanants Through, an Unified Correctional System When the California State Board of Charities and Corrections was established by the Legislature of 1903, the interest of prison reformers was centered in the penitentiaries. This was true not only of California but of the entire United States. From the days of John Howard and the rise of penitentiaries, debates between advocates of the Auburn and the Pennsylvania systems quite obscured the evils of the county jail. Yet here and there were found people interested in petty offenders, and in 1869 Rhode Island established a State Workhouse which "was to save men and women from imprisonment in jails and prisons, which has proved expensive and worse than useless to all concerned." But for most people the state prison with imposing buildings, large inmate population and sometimes sensational evils, appeared to be more worthy of study and philanthropic effort. When public attention turned to the needs of misdemeanants, it was restricted for the most part to the problem of sanitary jails. The first ten years of the California State Board of Charities and Corrections was a period typified by the building of "Paully" jails. The first biennial report read: "We are now at the commencement of an era of jail building in this State. We are passing into the second stage of our history... Before the end of the decade most, if not all, of our old jails will give way to modern structures." As a matter of fact, of the fifty-eight counties in California, sixteen did erect new jails, and five more remodelled their old structures. But even in 1904 the board conceived the need of more fundamental changes, and on the same page with the statement of the jail-building program it said: "We believe the time is not far distant when all persons convicted of violation of State laws will be considered and treated as state prisoners and confined at labor in state institutions." Following discussions along this line in the national Conference of Charities and Corrections and in the American Prison Association, a bill was introduced into the 1911 Legislature to establish two state farms for misdemeanants. Being a first effort and lacking support, it failed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.