The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-10-15
Healthy, Outdoor
 Work Is Needed For Young Criminals

Indianapolis, Oct. 15-Youthfu1 criminals should not be confined in er1sons, where contact with the vici- sus will inpel them to a life of crime, but should be given work in the Spen, work of the kind to which they ere naturally inclined, is the opinion of R. B. Chadwick, superintendent of Dependent and Neglected Children Tor Alberta, Canada.
 MT. Chadwick's views were voic- sd before the American Prison asso- citation, at It's annual meeting here, In an address today entitled Outside Work as a Preventive Measure and as a Reformatory Method" The growth of outside work in prisons, Mir. Chadwick asserted, is productive of justice toward boys and men which cannot be overestimated. The basis of such a system, he contin- ned, should be common sense. On the one hand, he said, a system found ed purely on sentiment will prove unsatisfactory and intellectual, on the other hand, practical, sound admins kration has brought out that too close incarceration has often foster ed a spirit of rebellion. In part, MT. Chadwick said:
 Probation has done more work as D preventive agent in dealing with young offenders than any other scheme yet devised. Probation in dealing with the hardened type of criminal is futile and useless, as through probation system the crinin- al succeeds in getting lenient treat ment without proper supervision of his surroundings.
 There is a group of offenders who are not hardened criminals, but who have to be taken care of. This group forms the largest of any of the vari- ous classes that have to be dealt with under criminal law. They are not za... as criminals, but they have gone be- yond the stage when they can be considered as possible of correction under the system of probation. When B boy or young man has fallen down under probation, and has become an occasional offender, and it has been deemed advisable to deal with him by some more rigid form of correc- ton than probation offers, the re- fofmatory method has been used with great success
 .sThe boy Is brought before the Juvenile or District Court in Canada, and handed over to the Department of Neglected Children, as a neglected child, and placed out to work under the supervision of an agent or fnspec- tor of the department. His earning capacity must be guarded, as he is employers of child labor, unless an agreement is entered Into and ar rangements made as to the particular amount of money he Is to receive in addition to board and clothing. The money is placed to the account of the officer who has charge of the boy, and a receipt given for each sum deposited or expended, in order that the amount may be justly accounted for in the final settlement with the lad"
 Mir. Chadwick outlined the work in Alberta which is being done under his supervision It was just as important he said, to find the particular sort of work for which a youthful criminal is naturally fitted as it was to find work at all. The farm had solved the question in many instances, but not in all. The work at the prison farm, he added, was watched by the provincial authorities and undoubt- edly would be copied by the provin- cial jaiIs in the near future In con cluston, he said:
 The basis of such a system should be common sense. A theory which takes only sentiment as a basis will fall down and prove unsatisfactory and most intellectual; on the other hand, practical, sound administration has often proved that too close in carceration has brought out a certain spirit of rebellion, and outside work has developed the principles which go to make a right man, and results ln the recognition OF the sense or human weakness, in many instances dormant, but in the ease of almost all boys easily get-at-abIe. To help the boy or the man 1t is as neces- saFy to know his weakness as it is to know his strength.
 'The cost of such a sch heme is com paratively small, as both boys and adults can be handled with @ great deal less money under this system than any other. Outside work in any form has proved an enormous deter rent to crime, particularly in inci- pient stages, and properly handled will likely prove the solution to the problem of the vagabonds and first