The sun., 1910-01-09
NEED or PRISON VISITING.
apr. Beverley ROblns0n Draws q Lesson
From the AntIsVIyisectlOn Crusade.

Dr. Beverley Robinson. who is exceed
lngiy interested in prison reform. has
come forward once more to exhibit the
cause nearest his heart in new sidelight.
He thinks that since there are 30 many
people just now so ready to interest
themselves in the subject of the sufferings
OF dogs through vivisection there ought
20 be an equal readiness in an equally
groat number of persons TO interest
themselves in behalf OF human beings
suffering imprisonment and with the i'm
prisonment what the doctor calls abuse.
-It is absurd to think that our greatest
men who are studying by means OF
vivisection would DO guilty OF cruelty"
said DR.. Robinson yesterday. yet have
no idea that they would object TO proper
visitation. OF course they would not
want 20 be subjected to visitation by
hysterical women or other persons not
properly qualified. Why even |. with
all my experience. left an operating room
the other day where one OF our best known
men was performing an operation on a
woman because | could not stand that
sight. But still. as say. on this subject
OF the vivisection OF dogs l do not think
the doctors would object to proper visi-
taton II it was deemed best to provide IL.
But do insist that what is much more
important is proper visitation Of our
penal institutions. Here il does not
really exist except what is done by mem
hers OF the New York State Prison Com
mission, which I consider insufficient
and inadequate. As TO correcting the
a abuses and the consequences OF ignorance
and neglect in prisons. penitentiaries
and jails. this is what said in con-
tributiOn to the Mission NeWs:
In what does The fual remedy consist
essentially in my Judgments Mainly and
ah an in rNffi ial Vi IN IN
penal institution, modelled somewhat after
what exists in all charitable Institutions
These official visitors should be appOinte ed
by the highest Judges of our courts In every
county or by the New York state Prison
Commission. upon whom IL should devolve
as an absolute obligation. under new and
revised law. at least in this one most i'm
portant particular.
Keeping at his topic and his cause.
DIR. Robinson told in the Christmas num-
ber OF the Surrey what he thought about
Judge Warren W. Fosters suggestion as
to the treatment OF criminals for the
public good and why he thought there
was something 10 be done before that
drastic measure for diminishing the num-
Der OF criminals was resorted to. The
something which is a duty in DR. Robin
sons belief il proper visitat ton and treat
ment in the prisons. Said he in. the
Surrey:
/ believe that the remedial treatment
advocated by Judge Foster has its place"
and this place is when it Is applied before
their release To cOnvicts of the unre geherate
aud confirmed character. so that when they
20 forth they shall not at least arIilct the
public with children thereafter born to
them
When society does its fun and entire duty
to the criminal. then society would have a
fairer plea thoroughly to Justify itself in
doing what Judge Foster aud Eugene Smith
indorse and too provided first OF all. we
the l. "pier, more fortunate ones. have done
our imperative duty.