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TREND OF U. S. PRISON
REFORM OUTLINED TO
INTERNATIONAL BODY
LONDON, Aug., 33. (£>)—The trend
in American prison reform is toward
individual attention for wrongdoers
in courts and prisons, Dr. Amos W.
Butler of Indianapolis, Ind., declares
in a paper prepared for the Interna
tional Prison Congress, in session
here.
After the custom of European as
sociations, the paper, translated into
French and reprinted, is handed to
a committee which will summarize
it and submit it to the whole Con
gress as a basis for discussion. Mr. j
Butler is former secretary of the j
Indiana board of state charities.
The same movement toward indi
vidual care and instruction wThich has
been accepted by hospitals and
schools is now manifest” in the treat
ment of prisoners, Mr. Butler show
ed, and courts and prison officials !
are considering wrongdoers individ-1
ually and prescribing thus for dis- j
position of their cases instead of j
treating them by formula or in the
mass. The movement, however, is a
gradual one, and its general accep
tance as a policy will not immediate
ly entail its universal practice.
Tracing the progress from congre
gation to individualization in prison
work, Butler outlined the handling
of prisoners from the time when Wm.
Penn replaced harsh treatment in
the Pennsylvania colony with more
humane methods, substituting pris
on for the gallows, labor for bloody
punishments and workhouses for the
debauchery and idleness of the jail
yard.
The high points in American prog
ress in dealing with criminals, he
found, were established in Virginia
and Kentucky in the late eighteenth
century of the penitentiary system,
with reduction of the crimes known
as capital offenses and enactment by
the Indiana legislature in 1860 of a
“good time” law, enabling prisoners
to shorten their sentences by good
behavior and evidence of a desire
to reform. He noted the founding
in New York in 1876 of a reforma
tory, marking the beginning of the
present reformatory system; estab
lishment by Indiana in 1873 of the
first separate prison for women!
adoption by Massachusetts of the pro
bation system in 1878; and finally
physical and mental examinations
for prisoners, with hospitals for the
criminal insane and clinics for the
treatment of criminals with less
marked mental incapacity.
Summarizing the progress in crim
inal treatment, Mr. Butler found the
forward steps in America falling into
eight divisions. Employment of more
humane methods was followed by
gradual grouping of prisoners in spe
cial institutions for juveniles, wom
en, young men who were first offen
ders, the criminal insane, and defec
tive delinquents. Indeterminate or
indefinite sentences were the next
step forward, followed by the estab
lishment of juvenile courts and the
inauguration of the probation sys
tem, first for juveniles and then for
adults. Physical and mental exam
inations, first in juvenile courts, then
in reformatories and prisons and fin
ally in courts for adults brought the
treatment of the criminal to a higher
plane, and finally routine mental ex
aminatkms for prisoners, inaugurated
in Massachusetts, and a movement
for uniform criminal records in
courts, have made modern methods
of dealing with wrongdoers the most
effective in history.
New British Wireless
Needs High Masts In
Order To Gain Service
RUGBY, Eng., Aug. 33. (jP)—Six
times as high as the Nelson monu
ment in Trafalgar Square, London,
are the 12 masts of the new British
government wireless station here,
thru w’hich it is anticipated tele
phonic communication with the Unit
ed States as well as wireless com
munication with all parts of the Brit
ish Empire will be effected.
There is an electric lift inside each
mast to carry four men to the top in
15 minutes. There is also a ladder
up which the top of the mast can be j
reached in half an hour. The masts
are supported on porcelain insula
tors and can rock slightly on a joint
at the base. In a high wind the
top of the mast sways to the extent
of eight feet.
“Smile with Nile” Saturday night.
Fourteen Points Guide
To Successful Movies
HOLLYWOOD, Cal., Aug. 13. (Jp)
—Thru a recently established system
of selecting plots that conform to
the covenant of 14 dramatic points,
motion picture producers here now
practically assure the success of a
photoplay before it is made. Of
thousands of films produced in the
past many were failures from the
standpoint of audiences.
Irving Cummings, director, under
whose direction several productions
have been filmed through this new
method, declares that in the future
failures will be almost completely
eliminated. In this manner more pic
tures that appeal to the audiences
will be turned out, he said.
The photoplay when adjudged by
this method should contain a majori
ty of the fourteen following dramatic
ingredients: ambition, conflict, con
spiracy, devotion, eternal triangle,
greed, intrigue, love, mother love,
the quadrangle, retribution, reconcil
iation, sacrifice, feminine appeal.
Annual ankle competitions have
been discontinued at Hounslow, Eng
land, because “athletics have done
away with pretty ankles.”
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