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5 Correction 1 (1935)

handle is hein.journals/crecton5 and id is 1 raw text is: ow W = = WW -W - UWWW PUBLISHED BY THE NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTION VOLUME 5 ELMIRA, N. Y. JANUARY, 1935 MILLIONS TO AID PRISON INDUSTRIES N AN effort to develop a plan for a solution of the time old problem of competition between the products of prison labor and those of outside indus- try, a committee composed of Judge Joseph N. Ulman, chairman, of Baltimore, Md., Frank Tan- nenbaum and W. Jett Lauck, has submitted a report to the National Recovery Board of an investigation of the subject directed by Presidential order. The committee was directed to inquire particu- larly into the controversy between prison industries and the cotton garment industry and to study the Prison Labor Compact especially as to the enforce- ment of the established staildards of competition with private industry. After hearing witnesses representing industry, organized labor, prison management, NRA officials and others, the committee finds: The Prison Labor Compact has not solved the problem of prison labor and will not solve it permanently and con- structively. The compact was the product of a genuine desire to solve a hard problem. It has been administered fairly by persons of the highest integrity. Any past errors in its administration have been only such as are inevitable in the development of a new instrumentality.' The only true solution of the prison labor problem is one that will effectually remove the products of prison labor from the ordinary channels of competitive trade and commerce. This means the State Use System. The present and potential competition of prison indus- try with the Cotton Garment Industry has created a special and acute problem that calls for immediate attention and relief. The committee states that the principal fric- tion and the most irritating conflicts have arisen between the Prison Labor Authority and the Cotton Garment Authority. This is due neither to accident nor to merely personal differences. The Cotton Garment Industry is badly over- expanded. This has been brought about in part through expectations aroused by the passage of the Hawes-Cooper Act. As a result, prison competi- tion, even on its present reduced scale, actually endangers the life of the Cotton Garment Code. The (Continued on Page 5) DIVISION OF EDUCATION RECOMMENDED HE Commission for the Study of the Wduca- tional Problems of Penal Institutions for Youth, appointed by Governor Lehman and headed by Pro- fessor N. L. Engelhardt of Teachers College, Colum- bia University, has submitted to the Governor a preliminary report stating certain definite conclu- sions which have been reached and making recom- mendations for legislation which would establish a Division of Education in the Department of Cor- rection. For the development of such a Division the Commission recommends a budget of approxi- mately $140,000. The Commission's point of view as set forth in the report follows: Your Commission starts with the premise that the ultimate and basic function of the reformatory or prison, after the demands of safety and security have been met, is the rehabilitation of those committed to its care, is their re-education, and, if possible, their restoration to community life upon release as normal, social beings. The prison inmate is primarily an adult in need of education and only second- arily in need of reform. Experience indicates that this cannot be accomplished through mere incarceration, or through purely punitive procedures. Social readjustments will not occur automatically as a result of the denial of liberty and exclusion from normal social relations. The problem of the correctional institution is the re-fashioning of character and the adjustment of disturbed personality patterns. To accomplish this end, all of the resources of medicine, psychology, psychiatry, penology, religion, instruc- tion, and wholesome social living must be utilized. In the largest sense of the term, the task is that of education. This education, however, must.be broadly con- ceived to reach the fundamental conditions and circumstances that underlie the anti-social patterns of behavior. Insti- tutional life must reach the heart as well as the mind of the inmate; his emotions together with his intellect must be re-educated. Faulty habits must be corrected, anti-social attitudes modified, and antagonisms eliminated. The indi- vidual must be trained for a constructive vocational and wholesome leisure life. Moreover, through an effective sys, tem of guidance and placement he must be assured of eco- nomic security for a reasonable period after his release. In such program, which we regard as essential in the reformative situation, education cannot be taken as a mere gesture, nor an institutional luxury. Expenditures for an efficient educational program constitute the best type of social insurance. The school and the shop must be regarded as vital agencies in the rehabilitation set-up. In their activities, together with those of the clinic and the recrea- (Continued on Page 5) NUMBER 1

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