Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-06-05

injured at the Badger iniue, NlaSS fdhe9;
Wednesday, has died of his wounds.:....
Robert Blakeley. aged Is, accidentally shot
and killed himself at Visalia...... Lizzie
Boyd suicided at Salt Lake with poison.
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THE CONSULTATION NEXT TUESDAY.
The consultation to be held in this city
aeyt Tuesday ought to excite Il great deal
of interest. 1t is convention of advice
and free conference, called by the Califor-
MIA State Pathological Commission, to de
bate plans for the improvement of prison
management. OF course, only those who
take deep interest in this great social
question will attend. The man who be-
lieves that public concerns will take care
of themselves will remain away. The
man who believes that he owes something
to the period in which his children will be
active upon the stage of duty; the man
who believes that as society is composed of
individual units, of which he is one, it is
therefore his duty and his privilege to take
action in the organization of society, to the
end that its highest attainments may be
comprised, whether he lives to witness
them or not; the man who believes that it
costs too much money to run the State
Prisons, too much, by three-fourths, to
convict and punish for crime, since the av-
erage per criminal is $4,000; the men, in
short, who are actuated by public spirit,
philanthropy and sincere desire to lessen
the criminal element, by preventing crime
all these will, so far as private duties
will permit, attend We publish this morn
ing from the pen of one of the Pathological
Commission a most interesting paper on
"Prison Problemes" To it we invite the
attention of the readers Of the RECORD
UNION. II will be found, for its very sug-
gestiveness, worthy of perusal. The sepe-
ration of the neophytes in crime from
the hardened offenders, the economy of
prison management, the fitness of prison
officials, the paroling of prisoners-all
these subjects are presented, and in a con-
else and perfectly lucid manner. These
topics will be up also for discussion
and free expression at the consultation of
Tuesday next.
The system of paroling of prisoners has
been adopted in Ohio, and is found to
work even better than its originators ex-
pected. Under this system the reforma-
ton of the prisoner, who is deemed sns-
ceptible Of it, is undertaken outside of the
prison. and in the midst of worldly ac-
tivities. A prisoner sent up for the first
time, for crime below the grade of muir
der. is not sentenced for a definite term
under this system. He is found guilty, and
submitted to the prison management for
punishment. He must at least serve the
minimum of the term provided by law.
If az the end of that time it is found that
he has been obedient, faithful and industri-
Gus, he is given certificate that he is a
ward of the State, as a convict; that he
has served the minimum time and that he
is paroled in order to give him an oppor-
tunity in the activities of daily life, IN
industry or business to show that he Is
reformed, or DESTROYS, rather, OF reforming.
This parole requires of him that he shall
not leave the State; that he shall report
to the management at stated periods his
condition, his prospects, his earnings and
his expenses, and for what they were in
Cured. He is to avoid drinking places
vicious companions, late hours, places of
festivity and brawling, he is to obey the
laws, commit no crime whatever, to be in
dustrious, patient, well-mannered and obedi
ent to his employers. If in this he fails
he is liable to be retaken as an escape, and,
being restored to prison, cannot thereafter
avail of the privileges of parole, and must
serve out the maximum term for his
original ofense. He is not granted parole
in the first place until some one has offered
to give him employment for at least
six months, and not until the
management has ascertained the reliability
and good character of the proposing en-
pIover. If the need arises for change of
employer, it is to be made only by consent
&c the management The naan=uadsr pos
role is believed from police surveillance.
He is nit to be liable to arrest as sus-
picioalslconvict. He will be perfectly free
from The blackmail levied upon ex-eon-
victs bs their old criminal associates, and
through which scores of discharged men,
who sincerely desire to lead new lives, and
to be honest and true, are driven back into
criminal ways aud again land in prison.
The paroled man knows that he cannot
suffer. br if he i out Of employment and
moneyhe has at the State Prison refuge,
where food and shelter are at his COM
mand. He knows that his fate is in his
own hands, and that if he fails to do right
ere VIII be no one to blame but himself.
there is every incentive to reform
leserve well Of the State, which is
best to aid him to abandon cTini-
He cannot be annoyed by the