The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1910-10-03
TO STUDY CRIM|-
NOLOGY
Experts Gathering in Wash.
ington Today to Discuss
Benefitting Erring


greatest gathering of students of
crime and of methods of treating
criminals that the world has ever
witnessed assembled in this city to-
day at the opening of the eighth
meeting of the International Prison
Congress. The sessions are being
and will continue through the en-
tire week. The attendance embraces
several hundred of the worlds most
famous criminologists and prison ex-
perts, gathered from nearly fifty
countries.
For the first time in her history
China is participating in the inter-
national movement for prison re-
form. She has sent a delegation
consisting of progressive young men
who are taking a prominent part in
the work of reshaping the system OF
Jurisprudence of the empire and in
the practical administration of the
laws. Japan is likewise represented
liza and several of the countries of
South and Central America. Virtu-
ally all of the nations of Europe,
including Russia and Turkey, are
we'll represented at the gathering.
The congress will consider the
subject and application of criminal
law, and methods of improving the
condition of prisons. Its objects are
purely humanitarian, and comprise
the whole range of practical meas
ures intended to benefit the erring
individual, as we'll as protect soci-
ETY. as a whole Penal legislation
will be the subject of much discus
sion and the ACCESSIBILITY of the
death penalty will also be consider
! ed. The effects of probation, the
best methods of dealing with the
tramp problem, the indeterminate
sentence, the problem of the drunk
| ard, the essential principles of a
/ provement of the parole system, the
| best means of working prisoners in
small prisons, the problem of the
child criminal, and the procedure
regarding penal sentences pronoun-
ced by courts of foreign lands when
the prisoner is again in his own
country, are among the topics that
will receive attention during the
week.
The presiding officer is Professor
Charles r. Henderson, of the Uni
versity of Chicago. Included among
the noted participants are Emilio
Rabasa, president of the prison
board of Mexico: Frederic o. A
Woxen. chief of prisons of Norway;
Etienne Khrouleff, chief of the pris-
on administration of Russia; Victor
Almquist, chief of the general prison
administration of Sweden; DR.. Gull
laume of Berne, who is secretary Of
the International Prison Congress;
DR.. Don Fernando Cadalso, inspec-
Tor general of prisons in Spain; DR..
Joseph Baernreither of Austria !;
Adolph Prins, general inspector of
prisons of Belgium; Sir Evelyn Rug
gles-Brise, president of the English
prison commission; Walter George
Scott, president of the prison COM
mission for Scotland; NJ. Schrameck.
director of the French prison sys-
tenn; DR.. Rosenfeld, secretary of the
International Criminalistic Associa-
ton; Alexander Skouses, former
minister of foreign affairs. Greece;
Takashi Sanagi, secretary of the
prison bureau of Japan; Jules Ricki
de Bcllye, chief of the prison system
of Hungary, and Saadedin Bey, the
judiciary inspector of Turkey.
Although the United States gov
eminent played a prominent part in
the organization of the Information
al Prison Congress, and meetings
have been held every five years
since 1872, when the congress was
firmly organized. this is the first
meeting that has been held in this
country.