Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1905-12-07
LcciGLATuEE ADVOCATES
gpI EG IL liuL L.n is.E.A MEM
3pocia Committee of New York AS
senbly Recommends lis Adoption
by the State For the Rc-,ama-
ton OF the DrunS-..'c,.


received serious consideration by the
senate and assembly in the state of
New York during the session of the
present year. 1905, the result being the
appointment Of IA special committee BY
the judiciary committee of the assem-
bly, to Investigate and report what they
considered to be the best methods of
dealing with the treatment of criminal
incbriates. The report of the commit
tee Will interest all classes.
About 80 per cent OF the convictions
il the criminal courts of New York
state are for intoXication, the punish
ment in many cases being a term in
prison. where the Offenders are treated
as criminals. On the expiration OF
their sentences they are sent back to
the community with the stigma of
"couyicts" or Jail birds" to seek
livelihood as best they may.
This treatment of nebriates is inhu-
man from Il humanitarian point Of
view ana an enormous expense to the
state in the maintenance of iails and
penltentiaries as well as by the sup
port of offenders while imprisoned 1t
has been recommended for several
years past in various official reports
that some action should he taken by
the state to better the condition of the
criminal inpbriatc and that be should
| be furnished with some means Ivy
which he could, if he so wished, be-
] tn, laN al r
citizen.
The special committee made a care
! ful ana exhaustive investigation into
| the various methods for The cure of al
coholiSm brought to their notice and
reported as follows, in part:
In Re Criminal Inebriates.- The
| official report Of the state commission
! of prisons for 1903 states:
"The taxpayers of the state are an
nually subjected to large expense in the
/ arrest ard rcarrcst of persons charged
! with drunkenness, and much Of the time
/ Of our criminal courts is occupied in their
! trial and about one-half Of the expense
/ Of maintaining our jails and penltcn-
/ tarils is caused by the maintenance Of
! this class Of offenders during their term
! Of commitment When man is int@X-
icatcd his reason is dethroncd for the time
/ being 1t is often necessary for the pro-
lection OF the public that he be taken into
custody and receive treatment at the
hauS Oh lLe S'tt ms tr,tJ o'lG"f s,cI 'G ms as
a '',-rI- crir2a Drnnl.cnnoss has in it no ele-
ment OF mali The law should recognize
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