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6 Prison J. 1 (1926)

handle is hein.journals/prsjrnl6 and id is 1 raw text is: VOLUME VI, No. 1 JANUARY, 1926 THE PRISON JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE SCIENCE OF PENOLOGY Published Quarterly by THE PENNSYLVANIA PRISON SOCIETY (Orgsanized 1787) 311 South Juniper St., Philadelphia, Pa. Phis Number (Twenty Cents) Fifty Cents a Year INTERNATIONAL PRISON CONGRESS Having had the felicity of attendance at the International Prison Congress arough its week of sessions in August last, both as a delegate from our ommonwealth under appointment of our Hon. Governor Gifford Pinchot, old in the absence of any other volunteer, as a delegate under appoint- wnt of our Society, your President feels that mention of the occurrence lust appear in this report. The Congress in London, England, held in August w5hAelAl0 elegates representing most of the countries and peop Af .thi ea vas a notable and very highly interesting occasion. Fivtaaineathsessions f the Congress were held on five successive dates, with qpening amfresse§ iven by authorative members of the British Governmettkonl'll t- ral subjects of Legislation, Administration and Pi A oQ or pon a theme directly relevant thereto. These three subjects-wre also aken up and discussed by three Sectional Meetings held apart each <ay from 2 to 5 P. M., the entire body of delegates to the Congress being livided into the three organized groups, from each of which resolutions were produced for final action by the general body, and as approved, became the voice of the Congress. With great brevity the following utstanding remarks have been culled from leading addresses. Sir Evelyn Ruggles-Brise, President of the Congress, remarking on the iernational character of the assembly said all the nations represented n;ve been united in a common desire to introduce into punishment and orevention of crime, more reason, more justice, and more humanity Digitized from Best Copy Available

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