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Delinquency and Corrections: Part II, Topeka Improvement Survey

Author
Zenas L. Potter
Ebook
Publication Date
64 pages

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More than sixteen hundred people were arrested in Topeka in 1913. This booklet seeks to investigate how the city’s police department, courts, jails, and probation officers are treating the offenders. It discusses the police department, court penalties, city and county jails, probation and parole for adults, juvenile delinquency, and preventive work and the provides general conclusions.

ZENAS L. POTTER worked in the Department of Surveys and Exhibits at the Russell Sage Foundation.

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Scranton in Quick Review

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No author
Ebook
Publication Date
31 pages

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This booklet contains a report of living conditions in Scranton, Pennsylvania, conducted by the Department of Surveys and Exhibits of the Russell Sage Foundation and published by the Century Club of Scranton. It covers the following topics: community assets, education, public health and sanitation, civic improvement, betterment agencies, recreation, taxation and public finance, work conditions and relations, and delinquency.

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Training Schools for Prison Officers

Author
Hastings H. Hart
Ebook
Publication Date
70 pages

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This booklet covers the development in the United States of schools for the training of guards and other prison officers modeled on one in England. Topics include the U.S. Training School at 427 West Street in New York City, the Keepers’ Training School on New York’s Welfare Island (now Roosevelt Island), and the British Training School in Wakefield, England. The booklet also contains forms relating to candidates for prison service in England and Wales.

HASTINGS H. HART was a consultant in delinquency and penology at the Russell Sage Foundation.

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The Negro Offender

Author
G. Croft Williams
Ebook
Publication Date
11 pages

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This text was presented at the 51st Congress of the American Prison Association in Jacksonville, Florida, in 1921. It addresses the high proportion of African American criminal offenders in the United States, considers how such offenders should be treated, and offers suggestions for decreasing crime in this population.

G. CROFT WILLIAMS was the secretary of the State Board of Public Welfare, Columbia, South Carolina.

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United States Prisoners in County Jails

Author
Hastings L. Hart
Ebook
Publication Date
63 pages

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This booklet presents the report of the Committee on Lock-ups, Municipal and County Jails, of the American Prison Association on United States prisoners boarded out by the federal government. It discusses the origins of the boarding-out system, congressional action, three U.S. penitentiaries, federal reformatories, U.S. prisoners boarded out, the difficulties of reforming the county jail system, jail from the prisoner’s point of view, and suggestions for grand jury surveys of conditions under which federal prisoners are kept in county jails.

HASTINGS L. HART was the chairman of the committee of the American Prison Association and consultant in delinquency and penology at the Russell Sage Foundation.  

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A Model Jail of the Olden Time

Authors
Robert Mills
summarized by George J. Giger
Ebook
Publication Date
12 pages

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This booklet provides a summary of the architectural plans for the jail in Burlington County, New Jersey. It includes discussion of standards for a model jail as well as an analysis of the general evils of county jails and their remedies.

ROBERT MILLS was an architect who designed the Washington Monument in Washington, D.C.

GEORGE J. GIGER was director of inspections at the Department of Institutions and Agencies for the State of New Jersey.

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A Social Welfare Program for the State of Florida

Author
Hastings H. Hart and Clarence L. Stonaker
Ebook
Publication Date
50 pages

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This booklet outlines the social work of the state of Florida. Among the topics discussed are war activities, care of soldiers and their families, food conservation, education in patriotism, administration of boards and institutions, the public health service, the prison system, infant mortality, child labor, recreation, public education, and care of the poor.

HASTINGS H. HART was the director of the Department of Child-Helping at the Russell Sage Foundation.

CLARENCE L. STONAKER was a staff member of the State Charities Aid and Prison Reform Association of New Jersey.

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Volunteer Attorneys and Legal Services for the Poor

New York’s CLO Program
Authors
Douglas E. Rosenthal
Robert A. Kagan
Debra Quatrone
Ebook
Publication Date
245 pages

About This Book

This report is about the Community Law Offices (CLO), which operated two neighborhood law offices in Manhattan—in East and Central Harlem—that provided free legal services to individuals and groups who could not afford private attorneys. CLO relied primarily on attorneys in private practice who volunteered part of their time to handle the cases brought to the two offices. Formation and growth, an overview of its operations, and an evaluation of volunteer performance are discussed.

Douglas E. Rosenthal was chief of the Foreign Commerce Section of the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice. Robert A. Kagan is professor of political science and law at the University of California, Berkeley.

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