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3 Correction 1 (1933)

handle is hein.journals/crecton3 and id is 1 raw text is: XI,, ~ r>I. PUBLISHED BY THE NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTION VOULME 3 ELMIRA, N. Y. JANUARY, 1933 INTERNATIONAL PRISON COMMISSIONER T RESIDENT HOOVER has appointed Sanford Bates of Massachusetts to be Commissioner on the part of the United States of the International Prison Commission. Mr. Bates is Director of the Bureau of Prisons for the Federal Government and was formerly Commissioner of Correction for the State of Massachusetts. On two occasions, one in 1925 at London and one in 1930 in Prague, he was appointed official delegate to the International Prison Congress. Mr. Bates succe~ds as International Prison Commissioner, Mrs. Otto H. Wittpen, recently de- ceased. Before her death Mrs. Witpen suggested to the President the appointment of Mr. Bates as qualified to represent the United States on this Com- mission by reason of his position as Director of the Bureau of Prisons and his familiarity with prison conditions both in this country and abroad. At the Congress in Prague Mr. Bates was selected as spokesman for the American delegates during the debates at the general sessions. Mr. Bates' appoint- ment was also recommended by the American Prison Association of which he is a past president. He has been in prison work in Boston, Mass., and with the Federal government in Washington for fourteen years and has visited prisons in nearly every state in this country and eleven foreign countries. He is an attorney by profession. The office of International Prison Commissioner is an honorary one and carries i . salary. The head- quarters of the Commission are at Berne, Switzer- land. The next International Prison Congress will be held in Berlin in 1935. The President of the Con- gress is Dr. M. Burke, President, Imperial Supreme Court, Reichsgerichtsplatz 1, Leipsic C 1, Germany, and the Secretary at Berne is Dr. J. Simon Van der Aa. (Continued on Pave 9) THE VALUE OF FINGERPRINTS O N NOVEMBER 2nd the unconscious form of a man was found on the highway south of Hud- son. He was taken to the Hudson city hospital where he died. State Police took his fingerprints and a search was made in the files of the Identification Division of the State Department of Correction. Miss Clara L. Parsons, chief of the division, re- ported that they did not correspond with any prints on file. Then relatives identified the body as that of Stephen Bain. Another search revealed prints of Bain on file but they were not those of the dead man and Miss Parsons so reported. However, the body was buried in St. Mary's cemetery at Wap- pinger's Falls as Bain and insurance companies paid two policies to Bain's relatives after his death had been certified by a physician and the coroner. During the latter part of December Bain put in an appearance in Hudson. He was surprised to learn that he was supposed to have been killed. His finger prints were taken and they tallied with those on file at Albany previously reported. All of which proved that the dead man was not Bain and again that finger prints are infallible. Bain's appearance raised several questions. Who is the dead man? Who is to pay the under- taker, a relative of Bain, for the funeral expenses? What will the insurance companies do about it? And meanwhile the vital statistics of Hudson and the cemetery records at Wappinger's Falls had to be corrected. COMMISSION OF CORRECTION APPOINTEE Jesse Jacobs of Oxford, Chenango county, has been appointed by Governor Roosevelt a member of the State Commission of Correction. Mr. Jacobs is a well known business man and succeeds James B. Smith of Utica, who retired from State service on July 1st. 0 NUMBER 1 I

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