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8 Correction 1 (1938)

handle is hein.journals/crecton8 and id is 1 raw text is: I,,,, --U)--- - - - - -;~ PUBLISHED BY THE NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTION OSSINING, N. Y. JANUARY, 1938 ALL RIGHT THIS MORNING ov. 8th 1836. All right this morning. Mr. Arnott Reports the punishment of Youngs with the cat 3 stripes & I Wright 2 for making bad work cooper shop. The foregoing is the first entry in a worn, leather- covered book, found recently by Warden Joseph H. Brophy tucked away in the old administration building at Auburn Prison. Labeled Punishment Record, its 600 pages contain a cryptic account of ten years of stripes, showers, stocks and dungeons. The last entry, written March 19, 1846, reads: J. M. Chaldon punished Charles Conlon four blows with the cat for refusing to take his seat as directed by his officer to do so. In January of that year a convict, Charles S. Plumb, died, soon after he had been flogged by an officer. He had been punished several times during the period of imprisonment which began in 1843 and the punishments are recorded in the old book. The As- sembly by resolution called upon the inspectors of the prison for all the facts connected with Plumb's death. The prison physician gave it as his opinion that Plumb died of bilious remitting fever and that the flagellation which he received had no positive and di- rect agency in causing his death. The keeper who ad- ministered the blows, describing punishment adminis- tered on the 19th and 20th of January, in an affidavit said: I did not count the blows, but I think I struck him thirty blows, or thereabouts, in all that day. There might have been more, but I do not think the number much exceeded thirty. I lost the count during the scuffles, and told the keeper so, who said I must report as near the number as I could. After he was punished I sent for some brine and had him washed and dress- ed, and went with him to his seat. * * * The cat with which I punished him was an old cat; there were 6 strands in It originally, but during the punishment on the 19th, one of the strands came out, and after that there were but five. I re- ported the number of blows the 2d day at 12. The foregoing is from a legislative record of that year. The entries in the old book are dated January 20th and 21st: Jany 20, 1846 1. W. Carey punished Chas. Plumb thirty blows with the cat in presence of the keeper for breaking windows & destroy- (Continued on Page 10) WOULD EXTEND CIVIL SERVICE CITING the escape of prisoners from county jails and penitentiaries due to laxity and inefficiency, Governor Herbert H. Lehman in his message to the Legislature recommends that the standards of the State Civil Service be extended to the eiaployees of such institutions. The Governor also recommends that the guards and keepers of county jails and penitentiaries be train- ed at the State Central Guard School recently estab- lished at Wallkill, by the State Department of Cor- rection. Under the caption Law Enforcement, the Gov- ernor in his message says: We have made remarkable progress in this State in our fight against crime. We have adopted many of the proposals emanating from the Conference on Crime, the Criminal and Society. There are, however, some recommendations which I wish to submit for your earnest consideration. A State Bureau of Crime Prevention should be set up. We should have a State Department of Justice modeled upon that of the Federal Government. We need the adoption of a system for recruit and 'in-service' training for police and the optional consolidation of local police units within a county. On several occasions, due to laxity and inefficiency, pris- oners have been permitted to escape by county authorities. This situation requires drastic action. We should extend to the employees of county prisons the standards of the State Civil Service. In addition, I propose that the guards and keepers of county jails and penitentiaries be trained at the State Central Guard School recently established at Wallkill. During the past year we have had a revealing experience in the handicaps under which law enforcement has to be car- ried on. In one of our counties especially, dog racing was conducted throughout the summer and fall. We invoked all possible legal means to stop it. Yet to our sorrow, we found that our statute law was not adequate to make our efforts successful. I would strongly recommend, therefore, that at this session the Legislature, without fail, amend the penal law to clarify beyond a peradventure of a doubt that the sale of options, or any other similar devices, at dog, races, shall be definitely prohibited. Futhermore, I urge that we provide that the people of the State shall have the right in a criminal proceeding to ap- peal a court decision which the State feels is in conflict with the law as intended by the Legislature. Last year we enacted a permissive women jurors law. I still believe that the system should be mandatory. There is no reason why women jurors should not be placed on an exact parity with men. To do so would make for a better administra- (Continued on Page. 3) VOLUME 8 NUMBER 1

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