Evening star., 1946-12-19
Corrections Unif
Urged 10 Handle
|De|inquents
Social Agencies
Ask Removed From
Welfare Boord

The Corrections Committee Of
he Council of Social Agencies
oday recommended that juve-
lille delinquents be taken from
;he Jurisdiction of the Board OF
Public Welfare and placed in
ARE Of the Department of Cor
.ections. The report is expected
20 prove highly controversial.
Representative Hebert, Democrat,
,f Louisiana, a member Of the House
District Committee, has taken
similar stand. A committee ap-
pointed by the House to recommend
changes in the penal system Of the
District was to meet this afternoon
to try to frame child delinquent leg
islation to be introduced next month
In Congress. Representative Hebert
Is chairman of the committee.
Hits Childcare Work.
The Corrections Committee, which
was financed by an appropriation
from the Community Chest, found
q great deal of fault with the
manner In which the Welfare Board.
has conducted its childcare work.
and particularly cited the Children's .
Receiving Home as unsuitable for
housing children.
The report also said the Correc-
tions Department was able to obtain
more money through appropriations
than tho Welfare BOARD
Four women on the COMMITTEES
submitted dissenting reports. They
were Judge Fay L. Bentley of the
Juvenile Court, Miss Elsa Cesten-
dyck, Mrs. Helen v. Dolan and Mrs
James r. Jardine.
Judge Bentley said, "the transfer
of the juvenile institutions from
the Board of Public Welfare to the
Correctional Department as recon-
mended by the Corrections Com
mittee OF the Survey is unsound in
terms of the best practice and ac-
cepted philosophy.
District Jail Is Praised.
The family and child welfare Sec
ton of the Social Survey also dis
agreed with the recommendation o.
the Corrections Committee that the
child delinquents be turned over To
the Department of Corrections.
In contrast, the Corrections Com
mittee praised the District Jail as
one of the best in the country. The
Jail now is under the supervision
of the Department of Corrections.
The committe also praised the
Women's Bureau of the Metropolitan
Police Department and recon-
mended that increased personne.
be made available for the bureau
and that it be housed in more
modern building.
/ The committee also urged COM
lprehensive study of the Metrepoh-
ltan Police Department BE Entde b.
la competent individual or agency
i Follow Through Recommended.
Screening activities Of the Polic'
tDepartment,s Juvenile Bureau sfoult
be developed so the bureau coule
follow cases through to the end, ,and
the bureau should work in Gloss
Incorporation with the Board Of Edu-
cation, the Juvenile Court and tn.
chiidren's division Of the Welfare
Board, the report recommended.
The staff of the bureau should be
increased to Is officers and shoula
be headed by captain AMI lieu-
tenant, it was urged.
For the probation department
of the Municipal Court, the COM
mittee recommended:
Short contact service with linn
tied preliminary investigation foz
those placed on probation for the
specific purpose of paying fines lin
installments, and for those whd
would be sentenced to less than
80 days.
A long-term service involving
complete investigation and field sd
pervision for those who would re-
ceive sentences longer than 80 days.
The greater use Of probation in
conjunction with the installment
payment of fines, with judges con.
sidering the use of probation i'm
mediately without investigation for
those cases which would ordinarily
involve small fines or shont sem
tenceS.
| Shaw Heads Committee.
The committee Endorsed the re-
Gently announced plans of Donald
Clemmer, director of the Department
of Corrections, for improvement in
physical plants, personnel and pro-
grams at the workhouse at Deco
guam and the reformatory at Lor-
ton, Va.
The committee making the re-
port was under the Craftsmanship
| of G. Rowland Shaw, former as
sistant Secretary of State. Leo A.
Rover was vice chairman. Tho
technicians assigned to the commits
tee were DR.. Walter G. Reckless,
professor of criminology and PEN
ology of Ohio State University. and
Louis Sarp, formerly assistant chief
of Probation Administrative Office,
United States courts.
| The members Of the COMMITTEES
were:
James v. Bennett, Miss Casten-
dyck, Oscar L. Chapman, George
E. c. Hayes, Austin H. MacCormick.
Charles v. Morris, Judge James w.
Morris, August Altiery, Bruce Baird,
Mary Lou Baum.
Also Judge Bentley, William H.
Collins, DR.. A. Barklie Coulter, Oil
yer Cowan, Wayne Coy, Augustus
Crenshaw Sd, DR.. James A. Nolan,
DR.. Frederick Reissig, Hugh Rivers.
Also Joseph E. Dayton, Mrs. Do
Ian, L. Roscoe Evans, DR.. Robert II.
Felix, DR.. Dorothy B. Ferebee, Har-
old E. Hegstron, George R. Hulver-
son, Mrs. Jardine, Allen j. Krouse,
Mrs. Blanche La Du, Wilbur La
Roe, jr.
Also Justice Bolitha j. Laws,
Samuel T. Lightman, Frank Love-
land, Rabbi Solomon H. Metz, How
ard Milor, DR.. Victor j. Tulane, Fred
Is. Walker, Mrs. w. A. Roberts and
mrs. Catherine Norton.
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