New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1847-05-08
Reform of Criminals.
From the Liverpool Mercury

~ I'm, o. fle Priacspts Of Punishment. prc.,Ht,d 70
F9' T,--ir,e on CRIMINAL Lar appointed by Ae Lac
,.s.5,.esf Sooiefy BY NJ. ID. Hill, q. C, Recorder
o. o .'sS movement OF the public mind toward a
sas,ory system Of punishments will be much aided
nhusnthropic eXertions Of Mr.. Hill who appears
~ - y. dssirous OF benehung Society by improved
800 laws as his brother Mr. Rowland Hills doing by
su1sss,e reforms. Government ia evidently becoming
fes.ea with sound vewso the question discussed by
- Nh and A. Government 10 comparatively poweress
~ ~ sb,ence OF prevailing public opinion hope
-. vews will be pondered by the thinking portion of
uIe,tiic The pamphlet before US will interest them
.y As il points to facts and sbundsnty prov.
prisons may, in great degree, be made hospitals
s cure Of moral diseases. II young vsgrant not
-, .tsned by crime, had the option of entering Rag
s~hool for some hours in the day, instead OF being
-, N i'll and IL those who had committed one act
sS.,,snV or felony. were consigned TO Industrial
$500 y here the advantage Of better practice could be
-, evident 20 their minds alsrge mass Of crmnslity
ia h. prevented punishments might cease 70 be
g,e,ite on rendered terrible only 10 brighten others
"a ultimately executions themselves those blo;s on
- .,ris escu;cheon. might be discOntnued-as indeed
v oughi be at once, on the ground OF their cruel
sstee in many instances On this subject the follow
- nsrsgrsph lately went the rounds of the public pa
-sOn the authority Of Sir Fitzroy Kelly il is stated
r., snce the year 1900 fewer than fourteen persons
t,re been executed whose innocence has since been
f-lr established" This Is truly appalling As crcum.
ssces encouraging to attempts At reformation Mr. Hill
frs 70 the satisfactory experience derived from the
,sisbrsied institution at Me,tray Tours and re-
pds his readers that by the act and Wet c. s2 g.
N ,ocees entertaining similar objects in this country
A. enabled 10 pursue somewhat similar means. We
mas, refer 20 the pamphlet itself for many interesting
PARTICULARS but will here trsnscrbeOne very crafty.
ne passage -" In the year isis the magistrates Of the
eou6,y Of Warwick formed society for establishing su
Industrisl school with view TO the reception Of young
rouvIets This School which Is called the Warwick
County Asylum and is situated Sretton upon Duns.
more at distance from any large town, has been
h operston eight and twenty years In September last
was made the subject of report to the Mddlesex
s!rses by their assistant judge VINO has always taken
deep interest the reformation Of criminals and it ap-
Gears that the number OF convicts who had left the
.choo between the period Of it, foundation in 1913 and
s5ydsy Of the present year e46) is 243 that Of this
number sixty per cent have been permanently reformed
without single relapse while of the forty per cent who
have relapsed some have been ultimately reclaimed,
mainly az il is believed, through the principles mbibed
and the habits acquired in their Of training which
though insufficient altogether TO prevent temporary
failure yet Ia the end manifested their durable action upon
Inc m nd