Federal Prinsoners and Penitentiaries: Hearings ... on H.R. 6807, 7410, 7411, 7412, 7413, 7832, December 19, 1929 ... 19291929 - 32 pages |
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agent or agents appropriation Support Atlanta Penitentiary authorized representative BATES bill Bureau of Prisons CELLER Chairman and gentlemen Chillicothe commutation of sentence competition with free congestion contract convicted of offenses correctional institutions custody December 14 Department of Justice equipping the necessary escape Federal Government Federal institutions Federal jails Federal penal institutions Federal penitentiary Federal prisoners free labor hospital for defective House of Representatives idleness insane introduced LAGUARDIA Leavenworth Leavenworth Penitentiary legal release Mann Act McNeil Island ment MICHENER MITCHELL necessary buildings thereon normal capacity officers and employees overcrowding parole board penal and correctional penal or correctional persons convicted persons held place of confinement political subdivision thereof prison population properly committed reformatory Senate and House sentence Seventy-first Congress situation Snell special committee submit subsistence Superintendent of Prisons Supervising Architect Support of United tion to-day Treasury United States Code United States prisoners workhouse
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Page 4 - by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled. That there is hereby established in the Department of the Interior a...
Page 5 - Hereafter all persons convicted of an offense against the United States shall be committed, for such terms of imprisonment and to such types of institutions as the court may direct, to the custody of the Attorney General of the United States or his authorized representative, who shall designate the places of confinement where the sentences of all such persons shall be served.
Page 8 - Provision of suitable quarters for, and safekeeping, care, and subsistence of, all persons charged with or convicted of offenses against the United States or held as witnesses or otherwise.
Page 4 - States, there to be kept until, in the judgment of the superintendent of said hospital, the prisoner shall be restored to sanity or health or until the maximum sentence, without deduction for good time or commutation of sentence, shall have been served.
Page 3 - Prisons, under the direction of the attorney general, shall — (1) have charge of the management and regulation of all Federal penal and correctional institutions; (2) provide suitable quarters and provide for the safekeeping, care, and subsistence of all persons charged with or convicted of offenses against the United States...
Page 3 - General, or to advise, connive at, aid, or assist in such escape, or to conceal any such prisoner after such escape...
Page 6 - ... agents of the Department of State or the Department of War. as the case may be, the expenses of such transportation to be paid out of the Treasury of the United States in the manner provided by law.
Page 2 - Congress that the said institutions be so planned and limited in size as to facilitate the development of an integrated Federal penal and correctional system which will assure the proper classification and segregation of Federal prisoners according to their character.
Page 8 - The unexpired term of imprisonment of any such prisoner shall begin to run from the date he is returned to the custody of the Attorney General under said warrant, and the time the prisoner was on parole shall not diminish the time he was sentenced to serve.
Page 6 - The Attorney General shall establish such industries as will produce articles and commodities for consumption in United States penal and correctional institutions or for sale to the departments and independent establishments of the Federal Government and not for sale to the public in competition with private enterprise...