Omaha daily bee., 1910-09-19
COMING TO PRISON CONGRESS-
Yearly Every Country in the World
to Be Represented.
GREAT MEETING AT WASHINGTON
Foreign Representative Arrive
Early in order 10 visit Many
of the Principal
cities.

NEW YORK. Eept. T-(special Tele-
yram.)-Delegates to the Interna tional
Prison congress. TO be held in Washington.
October TO s. were received at the city
hall at o'clock this afternoon by Acting
Mayor Aichell and heads OF the city de-
partment Tomorrow there will be a re-
ception, and at midnight the foreign dele
gates, with their American guides. will
leave on an inspection tour. going by spe-
cial train. The first stop will be EImira
N. Y, where the New York state reforma-
tory will be inspected.
The complete tour will take the delegates
to Chicago, then 10 Indianapolis and Louis
Vile, thence 20 Richmond and finally to
Washington. The trip will occupy ten days
and in that time the delegates will have an
opportunity Of inspecting the chief penal
and corrective institutions OF New York,
Ohio, Kentucky. Indiana and Illinois.
President Taft will open the regular ses-
sion of the congress Sunday afternoon,
October 2. The annual session Of the
american Prison association will be held
at Washington, September % TO october O.,
and Will be merged with the International
Prison congress, which will be '1nterna-
uonaI in the true sense Of the world. Fol-
lowers of Mohammed. Buddha and Con-
fucius will participate with Christians.
II Is announced that forty-two countries
will be represented in all, which will mean
that there will be delegates from every
continent, including Africa and the anti
podes 1t is noted that South America will
be fully represented. This is a sign OF the
growth Of international work toward the
raising of the standard OF prison admins
tration. 1t is largely due to prison work
ers In the United States that the South
American republics have become interested
in the congress.
Plan Proposed by BrIse.
LONDON, Sept 1S.-(Special Cablegram.)
British advocates OF prison reforms be-
lieve the forthcoming international prison
congress in Washington will usher in
new state of things in the management OF
penal institutions in all occidental coun.
tries.
Sir Evelyn Ruggles Brise. head OF the
British delegation, is expected to lay be
fore that body as indicative of the radica
changes in the viewpoint of British prison
managers the proposals that Winston
Churchill. home secretary. will try to have
embodied in a bill.
As the originator of the "Borstal treat
ment" for first offenders, Sir Evelyn f.
urged to explain the system to Che Amer
can prison authorities, because American.
are quick to adopt new ideas and are
sympathetic people in their attitude t.
young criminals"
Mr.. ChurchilIs system. which John Gals
worthy says is inspired by imagination
without which reform is deadly. and b,
common sense, without which 1t is danger
GUS" attacks the problem from both ends
Laying down the principle that the younl
shall not be punished except for their good
he urges on the other hand that no you'll
shall be sent to prison for less than
month. thus doing away with the happy
go-lucky sentences for three, six or tel
days, described by him as perfect incu
bator Of the criminal germ