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10 Correction 1 (1940)

handle is hein.journals/crecton10 and id is 1 raw text is: VOLUME 10 OSSINING, N. Y. MARKSMEN RECEIVE TROPHIES C APTAIN ELI V. KROM of the Napanoch Revolver Team which won the Presidential Trophy in 1939, left the office of Commissioner John A. Lyons in the State Department of Correction on the afternoon of December 29th with the members of the winning team, the proud possessor of a letter of commendation from President Franklin D. Roosevelt, donor of the trophy, and 'with the congratulations of Commissioner Lyons who presented the trophy. The President wrote: TO THE CAPTAIN OF THE NAPANOCH REVOLVER TEAM: I am very glad to send a word of greeting to your Team which has won the President's Trophy this year and last year. Your accomplishment Is an inspiration for others to raise the standard of marksmanship in similar organizations to a higher level. I send my congratulations to the members of your Team and to all other Teams which have taken part in the competi- tion. I shall watch with great interest the results of future competitions. Franklin D. Roosevelt Captain Krom's Team members from the Institu tion for Male Defective Delinquents were Edward B. Knight, George P. Halbig, Robert Brown and Francis Lowe, and they had won over teams from the Wood- bourne Institution for Defective Delinquents, Clinton Prison, Attica Prison, Sing Sing Prison, Wallkill Prison, Auburn Prison, Elmira Reformatory and Great Meadow Prison who finished in the order named. With the exception of Edward B. Knight, all are members of the team originally organized at Napanoch. The teams were organized in 1933 by Earl Miller, Supervisor of Personnel Training, following the intro- duction of Firearm Instruction in the Department in 1932. This is the second consecutive year the Napanoch Team has won the Trophy and should they win again next year it will become the property of the Institution. OTHER TROPHIES AWARDED Commissioner Lyons also presented the Commis- sioner's Trophy and the Instructor's Trophy. The for- mer is awarded annually to the person having the highebt score in the Department, exclusive of Instrue- tors. It was won this year by Captain Leroy V. Weaver (Continued on Page 5) VJANUARY, 1940 NUMBER I EIGHT YEARS OF EXPANSION E ARLY in the year 1931, Alexander Paterson, His Majesty's Commissioner of Prisons for England and Wales, made a four months' study of American penal institutions. He visited several in New York State including Auburn Prison, Great Meadow Prison, Elmira Reformatory and the Institution for Male De- fective Delinquents at Napanoch where he was a guest of the late Dr. Walter N. Thayer, Jr., then Commis- sioner of Correction. He incorporated his studies in a book on American Prisons. Last October Commissioner Paterson returned to the United States to attend the annual Congress of the American Prison Association in New York City. Asked as to his impressions as to changes during the interim, Commissioner Paterson, soon after reaching London, sent this message to the Editor of CORRECTION. It is a rare and refreshing experience to come back to American Prisons after an absence of eight years, to find Mr. Sam Lewisohn still devoting as much of his busy life as ever to prison work, to find Mr. Ed. Cass still keeping the telephone wires red hot at East 15th Street. But I have missed my old friend Walter Thayer, not so much in his office at Albany, as in his home at Napanoch. There are far too few like him in the prison fields of the world-and since I met you last I have travelled it from French Guiana to Zanzibar. Any journalist will ask me what are my impressions on coming back to you after eight years, and if I am a true friend of yours I must answer honestly at the risk of wounding here or there, rather than spill the whitewash all around, and so insult our friendship. Politicians may say pleasant things all the while, but friends dare to speak the truth, and so doing remain better friends. Let me then start with less pleasant sayings, and only the more forbearing will read on to the end. It seems that greater regard is still paid to the physical and material wel- fare of a prisoner than to his moral and spiritual needs. This is reflected in the expense, thought and time devoted to the care of his body, compared with that spent on the training of his character. Hospitals are built and equipped regardless of expense, the equal of any in the State or City. Yet the prisoners are not sent to Prison for prolonged medical or surgical repair, but that their characters may be straightened and strengthened. Is anything like the amount spent on prison hospitals available for the building of churches and chapels in a prison, where men may worship in a place set apart for the purpose, rather than in an auditorium redolent of lectures, songs and cinemas? The most essential feature in the training of character is the prison personnel. Yet is it not true that less rather than more is being spent on the training (Continued on Page 3)

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