The sun., 1894-10-31

Of correction should he the criminal-the real,
| the actual, the concrete men-and mott the crime,
| which is an abstraction. and which has no e1-
as II Is susceptible OF study can only be reached
| through the study OF the criminal himself The
| measures Of penalty, the critcria OF penalties,
are 70 be learned primarily frnm the diagnosis
| OF the criminal" And he asserted that nowhere
wss this object scientifically carried out as u Is
Taking M the question Of the scientific treat
STbpoygbonnt ,his ,r,ni nj, nch stress has been
laid upon the fact that the inmates OF the ne
rona rorasdi2ry d hre Young men snd wnGr1N IIns af
its newspaper and through It's counsel has used
the word lad The notion has been spread
| the reclaiminR of bad boys. and the prosecution
| has even gone so far as to attempt 70 impress
school for juvenile deinquents with which you
are dealing II Is a state prison for the coni,ns, re-
years of age everywhere recognized as the most
dangerous and the most difficult of convicts."
criminals The necessity for their treatment, and
the Possibility Of their reformation were then
again gone into, this time nt length. Mr.. Wins
the system lie declared that the state prir;;
ons and penitentiaries throughout the world
had been failures. Proving that assertion, he
said that In 1880 In the United states there was
one IN l.64S; in 1870, one in .l12i IN 1850. one
iu s53. aud IN 1890. one in $50. The necessity
81 making a diagnos'- Of ench criminal sent "
the ReformatOry In order that proper treatmcn!
might he selected came next, and II led
luce, about which such u time was made
10y the World. Briefly, Wallace refused 20 tell
anything about himself or his people, rs the law
requires he shall. and. after being kept in CON
hhement scNcnty:two days, he was transferred
dred tines Mr WINS sSry vent oS over % Il in S dSs and
contGnded that his insubordination and the i'm
poss9,i,,y ,l, Of making hin amegahic to treat
the RefornatOry TO do but To send him to state
prison. Wallaces case brought up the whole
nHngN nf nafa IN fsaNa tNNfa nVasl
that was gone into at length. II was shown that
transfers whenever made were nccessitated by
the acts Of the convlcts themselves. and that
transfers were for the welfare of the Reform
atory population. The law was quoted showing
that the right OF transfer rested absolutely In
the hands OF the managers. Then Mr.. lvins dis
cusscd the unspenkable crime that led to many
- accused conyicts AZ confessed their guilt.
The case Of Facey. who alleged that he had CON
less ,ssssd % 2nlI n t4 ay2d punishment; which M Was
said, where there was any proof that the con-
fesson was not voluntary. and the Testimony in
his case showed conclusivey that he was liar.
Mr.. Wins gave a dressing < down TO the MANNED
for-lfc fakirs. There were twenty of them who
sworc 10 permanent injuries. Not single one
told the truth, rs medical examination at the
time they testified showed. These eases were
torn to ribbons. The case Of McGowan. who the
World said. died In Brooklyn months after he
jnries he received at Mr.. Brockway's hands
while he was prisoner. was referred to. There !
was the testimony of the Doctor who attended
Mc,iowan and who made an autopsy on his |
body, which showed that he died of pneumonia !
and that there was not mark of any kind found |
that would indicate he had ever been punished. |
Mr.. Wins said OF this case: THE evidence as |
taken shows % In the clearest possible bic terms that
been committed In the history Of journalism In |
this country"
The effects of corporal punishment were taken |
UP next. MIR. WINS said:
During the early history of the institution. |
and when there were relatively few inmates. as |
time, and while the system was being expert
mentally developed, spanking was less fire.
quently resorted to and cellular treatment more
frequently resortcd to than AT present As the
the best results were, in most cases, obtained ,
by corporal treatment; that II failed less fire.
quenty than the cellular treatment although !
the two systems had 10 be continued side By
side"
He continued. and showed by the statistics Of
the RefOrmatory that In the years most COM
planned Of there was steady decrease In the
length OF time of detention OF prisoners.
Here, then" he said lis the conclusive
proof Of the practical efficacy OF the system !
which brought 40 much prompter reformation
more efficient as penal and rcformatory insti-
tuition He went ON and showed that, despite |
the Worlds assertions. the work of the institu-
tion had steadily grown better, Notwithstanding
the increased difficulties of management inci-
dent to alQO per cent. increase in population.
lie showed that, In the past four years, there
had been no increase in the number OF spank
ings. He showed that TOte per cent of the pop
ulaton In the Reformatory were never punished
at all.
1.-THE truth is" he said, that. although the
inmates OF the RefOrmatory are all felons, tried
and convicted, we were able to Get on with fewer
on the average during tic last four
years than were administered in the Boston
public schools in 1889.
The whole number Of inmates confined in
the Rcformatory during each OF the last four
years was, during the year ending