Federal Bureau of Prisons Annual Report |
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Alderson Atlanta average Bank and Federal Bureau of Prisons Camp Camps cent Chillicothe Commerce Act violation Counterfeiting and forgery COURTS Drug Act violation Eastern educational farm FEDERAL INSTITUTIONS federal offenses FEDERAL PRISONERS Federal Reserve Act Female Male Female Female Total Male fiscal Fort Eustis Grand Total HELD FOR TRIAL Homicide hospital Immigration Act violation Includes Internal Revenue Act Interstate Commerce Act JAIL COMMITMENTS JUDICIAL DISTRICT June 30 Leavenworth LENGTH OF SENTENCE Liquor Law violations Male Female Male Male Female Total Male male Male Mann Act violation McNeil Island Motor Vehicle Theft Narcotic Drug Act National Bank National Banking Act Northern OFFENSE AND SEX parole violators Postal Law violations Prison Camp Probation Officer REFORMATORIES CAMPS Reserve Act violations South Dakota Southern TABLE Theft Act violation tion Total Male Female Total number TYPE OF DISCHARGE UNITED STATES PENITENTIARY Vehicle Act violation Vehicle Theft Act Warden Western
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Page 5 - It is hereby declared to be the policy of the 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, the nature of the crime they have committed, their mental condition, and such other factors as should be taken into consideration in providing an individualized system of discipline, care,...
Page 92 - The fact that, to be effective, official contact needs to be made in an unobtrusive manner calls for a high degree of skill on the part of the...
Page 23 - ... must return; granted that parole boards are human and have not the miraculous power to foresee future violations of some of the men in whom they have confidence; granted all these things, nevertheless, it can be maintained that whenever the logical time arrives for the release of the prisoner, it is infinitely better and more consistent with the proper protection of our communities that they be released under parole supervision rather than turned loose, as must be the case when they have completely...
Page 13 - Reading With a Purpose Series of the American Library Association, is designed to promote organized and purposeful reading on the part of the more intelligent prisoners.
Page 16 - The conviction of a number of women during the past year for serious and desperate crimes or for aiding gangsters and racketeers has made it necessary to provide a special place for their incarceration in an institution of the maximum security type. The Federal industrial institution for women at Alderson was not designed and is not equipped to handle women who are desperate or incorrigible. We feel, moreover, that we cannot risk the possibility of an attempt to rescue forcibly the wife or sweetheart...
Page 23 - Granted that care should be taken in the administration of parole, that it should be granted only after the defendant has served a sufficient time in the institution, that its administration should be absolutely divorced from political and other ulterior influences, that its award should be based on a full possession of the facts of the crime, the character of the inmate and the environment to which he must return; granted that parole boards are human and have not the miraculous power to foresee...
Page 11 - ... completion of the total probationary period of one year. The general purpose of the school is to train officers to think intelligently on the practical problems of prison duty; to give them an adequate understanding of the historical and sociological background of modern corrective service to help them to understand the human material with which they have to deal; and to impress them with the importance and constructive value of the work in which they are to engage. Physical training, instruction...
Page 11 - ... for an additional eight months, during which they are given further training at the institution to which they are assigned. The certificate of graduation from the school may be withheld until the successful completion of the total probationary period of one year. The general purpose of the school is to train officers to think intelligently on the practical problems of prison duty; to give them an adequate understanding of the historical and sociological background of modern corrective service...
Page 22 - ... the persons committed to our custody the attitudes, skills, and abilities essential to making them self-respecting and law-abiding members of the community. To accomplish this we must maintain or restore health, diagnose and treat abnormalities, teach where necessary the rudiments of an elementary academic education, provide useful and stimulating employment, and discover and remove the basic causes and handicaps leading to antisocial acts or attitudes. Our basic problem then, and one to which...
Page 51 - The conditional rcl'ease procedure established by federal statutory provision that a prisoner who has served term for which he was sentenced, less deductions for good conduct, shall upon release be treated as if released on parole and be subject to provisions of law relating to parole of federal prisoners until expiration of maximum terms specified in sentence, is sui generis and is not identical1 with parole.