The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1904-11-12
KEEPER OSBORNE
REPORTS
With Chaplain Kelly he
Writes to Governor Muir
ply on the Recent
Congress.
FAVoRS BROAD PAROLE
Asks Adjustment Of Hanging
in State Institution Cues
ton of Identification.
FAVORS BROAD PAROLE
Special to ..rhe Jersey city News.,o

TRENTON, Nov. 12, 1904. Principal
Keeper George o. Osborne and Chaplain
Father Alloys NJ. Fish have submitted
a report to Governor Murphy on the re-
cent annual congress of the National
Prison Association. The report says: As
a result of what we have learned we wish
to emphasize the following conclusions
that have reference particularly to the
prison.:
First-A prison is not a proper place
wherein to hold executions for capital
offenses. The opinions among wardens
and others, even among those IN whose
institutions executions do take place, is
that their effect on the other inmates is
detrimental The proposition most in
favor is to have one central institution
in the State, set apart for this purpose
alone, where the one interest to be
served is to care for the condemned and
to have the painful action performed ex-
peditiously and without undue conmo-
ton.
'Second-The age of undue severity in
the management of prisons is past, the
experience of centuries having demon
strated that cruel repressive measures of
discipline have failed in their purpose,
either in maintaining a high standard of
discipline in the prison or of repressing
the individuals inciinatiofi toward crime.
In consequence thereof the prison disci-
pie of today should be built upon firm
ness and regularity, tempered with con-
sideration for the manhood that is not ex-
tinct in inmates of prisons.
San inmates of prisons are not now
considered hopeless, and the tendency is
to introduce into prisons measures that
are reformatory in character. Several
changes in this direction viii in all prob
ability be inaugurated in our own State
Prison, as the result of what has been
learned from leading wardens of the
country.
''Third The great means of repress-
ing crime in a community is TO make pun
ishment swift and sure. The habitlal
criminal, the man who win not reform.
must not be placed in the same category
with the occasional Offender. The habit
ual offender must be esknown as such, and
wherever he may be, it must be possible
to know he is such, hence a centralized
system of Identification is necessary in
the treatm of criminals The Bertillon
system is already largely in use, both
among the police, in prisons and in re-
formatories. While it is producing great
results, it also has its shortcomings.
I'VE note with interest the system of
identification by finger prints, which is
advocated by the British police authori-
ties. We have examined it carefully and
feel that it is worthy of consideration.
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