The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-01-03

yond hearing the Judge say, II COM
mt init you TO the State Reformatory' On
az ms arrival t the new prison, at Railway,
lie will be taken before the Warden,
who Will be furnished with court rec
erd ero OF the he trial and sentence, ranging
by statute. That official will tell him
that If he follows the rules of the In
stitutlon and shows that he is eager to
amend an ms ways he can work himself
out; N fact he is told that his term
= =, ! Imprisonment depends on his good and
ot.u pSsnavaor Then he is turned over to
f,,ifsl qf1fifsnuan.s, an stripped and his body care
MS weight, height, color of hair and
eyes. ana every other peculiardty are
aecoroed; &c, Is He is then superfically ex-
dy nIaiiy assigned to a cell. If he has fol-
lowed any trade prior to his imprison-
tn mnent II It be practicable he is put to
nand II he has no trade then he enters
the trade schools. Most of the trade
sonools in other reformatories nave as
pioyment, and 1T will indeed be strange
II the Warden cannot pick out something
Tor a prisoner to occupy his time with.
On the door of his cell win be the
rules of his conduct He must not talk
at work or during exercises. He must
not no have tobacco, liquor, or other for
must speak .civilly when addressed by the
keepers and he must obey their orders
His cell and it's furniture must be kept
clean and his cloths must be taken care
of. Any infractiorf of these rules and
the prisoner loses marks on his record
When he comes into the institution he is
stage, from which by good or bad conduct
,he ascendS or descends Should he prove
intractable and rebellious, down he goes
into Class A. where he has no privileges
climb again by good conduct. Obedience
to the rules gives him privileges and
raises him to the eligible stage, from
discretion of the Warden by command
of the Commissioners.
When young man comes out after
tence was four years, but three years
he has knocked off by good conduct.
Well Vel we M propose ,s to ID, DO with him as they hey
Reformatory he must go to the State
Prison Commissioner, who assigns him
to some employer who is willing to hire
four years sentence has expired he must
report to that Commissioner, who exer-
cises a strict surveillance over his move
ments. If he. sinks back into his old
sent back to the Reformatory without a
trial, there to finish out his sentence"
,g AS MT Gopslll was explaining this ae Rev
ton Prison and one of the commission APP
pointed to devise plan to reform the
penal laws of New Jersey, entered Mr..
'Oh, yes. the New York system is ex-
cellent. The Reformatory could not be
effective without the intermediate. SEN
tence' system You see if a man is al
lowed to go before his reformation has
been effected where is the use of the
Reformatory. He might know that his
maximum sentence was four years and
set all rules at defiance. To send him out
of the Reformatory under these circum-
stances would be absurd
Both gentlemen said that when the
new Reformaitory at Railway is ready for
dts tenants, the commission to reform
the penal laws will have been successful
in inducing the Legislature to authorize
the intermediate sentence" for New Jer-
Sey's Reformatory.
when we get that and our new build
ing up we need not be ashamed of any
criticism remarked Mr.. Gopsill, folding
up his map, which he will send shortly
to Trenton to be filed away and avoid If
possible any nonsense in future In
vestigating Committee about mice run
ming away with plansSof public -builaadssI
in New Jersey.