The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-03-13
WORLDS CRIME STUDY CONGRESS
The United States Leader In Many Branches Penology Will Entertain Europe At Next Falls Inter
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 When on September 19 1910, a special train of ten Pullmans leaves New York on a 20Oo-mile trip to visit reformatories and penal Institutions between New York, Chicago, Louisville and Washington. 1t will convey one of the most important Lodies of representatives of different gov ernments that has ever gathered in the United States. Probably never before have 30 or more governments cf the civil ized world, including nearly all the na- tions of Europe, sent to this country their official representatives to meet in an in ternational congress.
 To add to the interest of this Congress it should be understood that these govern ment representatives come together in this country to study the problems or crime, and of criminal law, and of the treatment of the criminal. Thirty-seven years ago in Londcn the International Prison Congress held It's first meeting Americans may be proud of the ract that his meeting 10 study both the criminal and the crime was organized by an Amer ican. MT. E. C. Wines. at the time sec retary of the Prison association of New York.
 This was a time when the reformation of prison administrations was in the ar he act providing for the establishment of Elmira Reformatory the first to be established in the United States) had been passed in 1868 by the New York leg isiature.
 In 1870, at the first meeting of group of progressive students of crime and crime problems in Cincinnati, the Na- tional Prison association was formed ana at that meeting in 1870 the plan for ealing z n International Prison Congress was oe- veloped. So that two y6a ars' later It was the United States that took the lead in calling this congress. which has, how ever. never met as yet in the United States.
 Every five years, in the years divisible ty five Q9o0, 1905 for example), eminent scholars, prison administrators, judges tLrists have gathered for this purpose.
 In 1so5 the congress was held in Budapest At that meeting Dr. Samuel l. Barrows. an American criminologist of international reputation, was chosen president of tie congress of 1910.
 pr. Darrows died last April, in the midst of his many activities. and his sue cessor is Prof. Charles R. Henderson, professor of sociology at the University of Chicago. The preparations for the | co ming congrers are novel and extensive. Many of the hundred or more delegates from Europe ard other foreign govern nents have never before crossed the ccean They will gather in New York m the middle of September and learn what New York city Is doing to treat criu'e and to reduce criminality. Then as the gre sts of the United States government <. totx1 Inc mentioned at the begirnin of this article. The fol | lc wing institutions will be visited: FL mira Reformatory, George Junior Re. public, Auburn, N. r., state prison, Mans | field, O., state penitentiary; Michigan City state pcnitentiary. Indiana; several correctional institutions in Chicago; Jef- | eersonyille Stste Reformatory. Indiana and a number of other institutions. A
 special train will convey the hundred del
 eeates and 50 or 100 American criminolo- | gists and sociologists on this trip. | On arriving at Washington the delegates will attend the annual meeting of the American Prison association from Sep l tember B to October 2. From October
 to October 8 the International Prison Congress will be held at Washington
 President Taft will open the congress
 and it Is expected that more than 1000
 pc rsons will attend the meetings. | The United States has contributed re.
 n arkably to the solution of prip' nrob- lems, though In foreign count far
 moro study has been put upon tk very
 problems which in the United State ave
 led to quick, decisive action. A Jury ago-to cite one illustration-theJ tern
 renitentiary at Philadelphia wa :uilt
 This penitentiary provided for co,.ztart
 separate cpnhnement of each prisoner
 from the time he entered until he left the
 prison; though his sentence was for l years he say no one except now and then IrisonS SPficid os 2 prison visitev'