Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Passing of the County Jail: Individualization of Misdemeanants Through, an Unified Correctional System
When I became Secretary of the State Board of Charities and Corrections in December 1913, I felt that the great need, so far as corrections were concerned, was for a fund of information to back the penal farm movement. So I personally visited the county jails as soon as possible, accumulating information as to just how the army of petty offenders was faring in California. The meeting of the National Conference in the spring of 1914, a visit to the Kansas City Municipal Farm and discussions in the Commonwealth Club of San Francisco were very helpful in formulating the problem through the suggestions and criticisms offered. In the 1914 report of the Board I presented a tabular statement of county jail conditions with com ments and arguments. With this as ammunition, the passage of another state farm bill was urged in the Legislature of 1915. Again inadequate publicity and inexperienced lobbying ended in failure.
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