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5 Prison J. 1 (1925)

handle is hein.journals/prsjrnl5 and id is 1 raw text is: THE PRISON JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE SCIENCE OF PENOLOGY Published Quarterly by THE PENNSYLVANIA PRISON SOCIETY (Organized 1787) 119 South Fourth St., Philadelphia, Pa. This Number (Fifteen Cents) Fifty Cents a Year THE LUDLOW BILL It is a hopeful sign of the times that the punishment and prevention of crime, and the management of prisons and reformatories is in these days receiving ever-increasing attention. Penology has become a ree- ognized science to the study of which many bright minds devote them- selves. It has long been discovered that the old methods of dealing With law-breakers neither prevented crime nor improved the wrong-doer. rhence those having to deal with criminals and convicts, and the growing TI11nber of those who make the subject a matter of seriop-- efwtion, began casting about for something better. As a consequynagr itDAeew Mriethods, far more rational and enlightened than the olYigave cQmeqggo Vogue, with the result that many a wrong-doer is again M ree10\socity as a law-abiding citizen. Among these new remedial measures are two that hate profed, m effective. The one is probation applied to adult as whil.,As 1i 1vetfe Offenders; and the other is the indeterminate sentence and parvle. What Is Probation? Under the probation system sentence is suspended, and the wrong- doer is given another chance in the guardianship of a probation officer appointed by the court. A bulletin of the Massachusetts Prison As- Wociation, in which State the system was first introduced, sums up the advantages of probation in these words: The advantages of probation over imprisonment are many. A very large proportion of those who are convicted for the first time are not criminal in character, but have commit- ted their offences under exceptional circumstances. If imprisoned with Digitized from Best Copy Available VOLUME V, No. 1 JANUARY, 1925

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