Report of the Inspectors of Penitentiaries for the Fiscal Year Ended March 31 ...order of Parliament, 1919 - Prisons |
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34 APPENDIX 9 GEORGE acres Advertising and travel Alberta Average daily population beg to call Bonus brick British Columbia buildings and machinery buildings and walls bushels call attention Canadian Criminal capita cost Clothing and hospital Cost per caput crop custody daily average Discharge expenses discipline Dominion police Dorchester ENDED MARCH 31 English prisons forfeitures Freedom suits Furnishing Gross expenditure Heat hundred INSPECTOR OF PENITENTIARIES jails Kingston labour Land light and water Living allowance Maintenance of buildings Maintenance of convicts Manitoba Miscellaneous months Office expenses operation Parole Office PAROLE OFFICER'S REPORT parole system past penal servitude Prison equipment prison farms prison system probationary system provincial received reformatories released on parole retiring allowances Roman Catholic chapel Salaries and retiring Saskatchewan schools and library SESSIONAL PAPER smokestack Staff suits and allowances suspended sentence Trade shops Transfer and interment twenty-one persons Uniforms and mess Utensils and vehicles Vincent de Paul warden word parole
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Page 14 - ... observer it must be evident that the parole system is gradually coming into its own as an organic entity, working in harmony with the most advanced ideas on the social treatment of crime and offering both to society and the criminal a hope for the future which imprisonment alone can never afford. Friends of the parole and probationary systems may logically advocate the principle that until governments spend on the oversight of men out of prison the equivalent of what they spend on men while in...
Page 13 - ... business life of the Dominion. It is also very gratifying to note that the recidivist class of criminal is on the decrease. Our penal institutions are gradually becoming less. This is more the result of the post-treatment of prisoners following a healthy and just treatment administered while in custody. To every candid observer it must be evident that the parole system is gradually coming into its own as an organic entity, working in harmony with the most advanced ideas on the social treatment...
Page 13 - USA, the parole act of 1914 was amended by act of 1916 so as to extend the benefits of parole which had previously been provided for those having received indeterminate sentences to all inmates of penal institutions under flat sentence.
Page 13 - ... the result of the post-treatment of prisoners following a healthy and just treatment administered while in custody. To every candid observer it must be evident that the parole system is gradually coming into its own as an organic entity, working in harmony with the most advanced ideas on the social treatment of crime and offering both to society and the criminal a hope for the future which imprisonment alone can never afford. Friends of the parole and probationary systems may logically advocate...
Page 14 - ... that until governments spend on the oversight of men out of prison the equivalent of what they spend on men while in custody, a parole or conditional release has not been given its full value. Since the year 1914 and up to the close of the war and the end of the last fiscal year, six hundred and ten men who had previously been released on parole and were industriously employed in their various avocations volunteered and, accepted by the military authorities, were sent to the front in various...
Page 12 - The whole regime of these special prisons is designed to fi,t the prisoner for conditional liberation at the end of the minimum period of his detention.
Page 13 - English prisons is exceptionally good and is maintained almost wholly by the use of solitary confinement, lessened diet, or the taking away of privileges as punishment.
Page 13 - The system is described as a combination of the State use system, the public works system and the State farm system. Agricultural work is for their own consumption.
Page 14 - ... a parole or conditional release has not been given its full value. Since the year 1914 and up to the close of the war and the end of the last fiscal year, six hundred and ten men who had previously been released on parole and were industriously employed in their various avocations volunteered and, accepted by the military authorities, were sent to the front in various units. I would make honorable mention and pay tribute to these paroled men who served at the front and have given their services...
Page 13 - English prison is wholly for the Government. No goods made in prison are put on the open market and sold in competition with goods made by free labor.