United States Prison Study Course: Lesson No. 1[-10] ...Federal Prison Industries, Incorporated Press, 1936 - Prisons |
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Page 60 - ... ears can hear ; therefore I the more denounce it, as a secret punishment which slumbering humanity is not roused up to stay. I hesitated once, debating with myself, whether, if I had the power of saying " Yes " or
Page 60 - I hold this slow and daily tampering with the mysteries of the brain, to be immeasurably worse than any torture of the body...
Page 13 - 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...
Page 60 - I have seen written upon their faces, and what to my certain knowledge they feel within, I am only the more convinced that there is a depth of terrible endurance in it which none but the sufferers themselves can fathom, and which no man has a right to inflict upon his fellow-creature.
Page 7 - ... 3. If the employee is receiving compensation within the rahge of salary prescribed for the appropriate grade at one of the rates fixed therein, no change shall be made in the existing compensation.