Annual Report of the Commissioners of Prisons of Massachusetts, Band 28

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Includes reports relative to jails and houses of correction, annual reports of the state prison reformatory prisons for women, the reformatories at Concord, the Annual report of the Agent for Aiding Discharged Prisoners, etc.
 

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Seite 128 - New Hampshire New Jersey New York North Carolina Ohio Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island South Carolina Tennessee Texas Vermont Virginia West Virginia Wisconsin Total 732 686 i.
Seite 149 - To the Honorable Senate and the House of Representatives in General Court assembled...
Seite 221 - TABLE No. 24. — Birthplaces of Prisoners committed for Drunkenness to All the Penal Institutions for the Year ending Sept. 30, 1898.
Seite 100 - Asylum for Insane Criminals. The total number in custody at the present time is 947, which is 36 less than at the date of the last report. The average age of the prisoners committed during the year was 20 years ; the average of all committed for drunkenness was 23 years. From the following table, which sets forth the average ages for the past ten years, it will be observed that there has been a disposition on the part of the courts to send the younger offenders to the reformatory, rather than those...
Seite 154 - BRISTOL COUNTY. JAIL AND HOUSE OF CORRECTION IN NEW BEDFORD. Master and keeper, JOSIAH A. HUNT ; * salary, $2,000 00 (With use of house.) Number of prisoners Oct. 1, 1897 381 House of Jail.
Seite 227 - Sept. 80, 1898, .... 7,127 6,816 6,472 6,391TABLE No. 29. — Average Number of Prisoners in County Prisons* and Proportion of Such Prisoners to Population in Each County. * Including the institution at Deer Island, formerly known as the Boston House of Industry, which became a house of correction July 1, 1896. Upon previous pages of this report reference has been made to the decrease in the number of prisoners as compared with the year immediately preceding. The total average number in all prisons...
Seite 113 - When it shall appear to the commissioners of prisons that any prisoner held in the state prison upon his first sentence thereto has reformed, they may issue to him a permit to be at liberty during the remainder of his term of sentence, upon such terms and conditions as they deem best, and they may revoke said permit at any time previous to its expiration.
Seite 103 - The rules while in the reformatory, together with the conditions imposed after release, are of such a character that the young man has every incentive to correct his method of living. The State on the one hand seeks to reform the prisoner by offering every reasonable inducement, and on the other makes every effort to enforce its laws by the punishment of the offender. More systematic work has been done during the past year in the way of keeping in touch with the prisoner after his release ; as a...
Seite 113 - Whenever a convict is sentenced to the Massachusetts reformatory, the court or trial justice imposing the sentence shall not fix or limit the duration thereof, unless the term of said sentence shall be more than five years, but said convict shall merely be sentenced to the Massachusetts reformatory.
Seite 45 - Of 834 convicts now in prison, 135 are recommitments, viz. For the second time, For the third time, For the fourth time, For the fifth time, Of 183 convicts received last year, 21 are recommitments, viz.

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