The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1868-01-15

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The report Of the warden shows that out
OF the one hundred and fiEly consicts now
in the peaitsAtiasy, thsr4 are NIFTY nine I'M
der twenty-eas years q ats, and thirty four
Of these vary ~ agc nom Twelve 70 eighteen
yeaFs An examinations q our criminal
return Win rcTeal tAs mesaneholy met that
avery large and Increasing proportion Of
thoss arrasensd y our cofEse, upon cs1miaal
accumsIons, are persons Of tender age,
many o. whom IND ther Pay isto the peni-
tehuAsy, tnefe 10 serve ipf Term o. yean
In coinpanionship With old and confirmed
oifsndef1 A lnrge ma3dr1ty OF these un-
fortunate youth are euAer orphans, cast
out aPoa their own resources, Or the neg
secfed Offspring Of parents who are eline!
too poor TO support, OF have, with criminal
indifference, neglected the education and
moral training OF their children. Thus
neglected, or deprived II the restraining
Influences Of : .ellordFed home, these
unfortunate children are often driven INTO
association With older companions, ~
whose corrnpting manners and vicious pro-
pensities they are consiscted, By sure
degrees, into the perpsirsiion OF crimes,
from which their better natures, If they he'd
been properly directed, Would have turned
with hoIW.
Some pears Of observation and experience
both - judicial and executive efheer h.ss
deeply smpseesed me viii the CONVICTION
that the soundest conld{ rations Of public
economy, and every sentiment OF m en-,
lightened and christian philanthropy, im-
perativeH demand the erosion Of reform
school, for the instruction and reformation
of juvenile offenders Instead Of working
j The refcrnation Of such persons, Tenn in
tie State penitentisry, by keeping them In
the pernieious Atmospheric OF prison life,
constantly subjected to the demorsli1ing
Influences OF con6rHed and hopssess erifni-
nfls, only serves to prepa.S them for enter
iRE spon higher and holder career Of
rrlme.
Many other States have deemed il ex-
pedicnt to adopt the polpt here suggested,
ss'n tne saEhaa succsse picn pas nafkes
their universal popularity wherever they
Aave been tired, sersps 10 epcourare me in
urging the General Assembly 10 establish
one 10 thia State at the earliest day prscti
cable For this purpose, / would recon-
mend that tract Of hnd, say from fifty TO
one hundred acres, be procured BY dcnrficn
or otherwise, !. some eligible and convenient
point, and that an appropriation be made
for the erection Of suitable buildings to Put
the school into immediate and successful
operation,
Reference should be had 10 the erection
Of workshops where these offenders may
also acquire knowledge Of some neehani- |
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