Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Report of the Committee on Treatment of Persons Awaiting Court Action and Misdemeanant Prisoners: Presented at the Fifty-First Congress of the American Prison Association, Jacksonville, Florida, 1921
In Connecticut, misdemeanants may be committed to and paroled from the state reformatory. Idaho has an indeterminate sentence law, with a year for the minimum for almost all crimes. After serving the minimum period a parole may be granted at any time. In Illinois, misdemeanants may be committed to and paroled from the state reformatory. In Iowa, misdemeanants may be committed to and paroled from the state reformatory. In Kansas, the governor has power to parole in any case of crime, from any place of imprisonment, upon condition that application shall be made to the governor and notice of hearing published for thirty days in the official paper of the county from which the prisoner was sentenced. Massachusetts has special parole rulings for the state farm, prison camp, and hospital. In Michigan, misdemeanants may be committed to and paroled from the state reformatory. In New Jersey, misdemeanants may be committed to and paroled from the state reformatory. In New York, misdemeanant females, between the ages of six teen and thirty, may be committed to and paroled from the state reformatory for women at Bedford or the Western House of Refuge at Albion. The Elmira Reformatory receives male prisoners committed the second time for a misdemeanor with a maximum term of three years and Opportunity for parole after serving about thirteen months. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
