Evening Star Newspaper, December 13, 1929, Page 37

CHANGING PENAL SYSTEM 1S HAILED Bates Says U. S. Should Work to Make Good Citi- zens of Criminals. (Continued From Thirty-sixth Page.)_ and this gives employment to but 800 out of the total 3,777. Two industrials have been authorized at Leavenworth, leaving probably from 1,500 to 2.000 men in either complete or semi-idleness at this institution. An extension of the State-use theory of prison labor, whereby the Govern- ment puts its inmates at work mani facturing goods for its own consum) tion, is a perfectly proper and accept- able solution of the prison labor prob- lem, acceptable alike to capital and la- bor. Our Federal prisons should be per- mitted to expand and diversify their in- dustries along these lines, and also to utilize the labor of men in prisons and jails in the construction or improve- ment of necessary public works where such can be done without undue com- petition with free industries. Real Work Is Deferred. ' the task of housing and feeding twice as many i mates as our penitentiaries should a commodate, the real work of our Fe eral prisons—i. e., personal reconstruc- tion—has had to be deferred. If the program of protective penology outlined above is to be carried out; if men are to be made better, and therefore less dangerous, it cannot be done by herd- ing, by overcrowdedness, by idleness or by Government neglect. It can only be done by analysis of the problem, the| classification of the inmates, the per- sonal diagnosis of their needs, the Droper penal discipline, by steady em- ployment and by the substitution of new incentives for old. Nevertheless, the prison warden of to- day has no illusions about his job. He realizes that the ravages of indulgence, carelessness, bad heredity and degrad- ing environment have wrought an in- eradicable impression, and that in the case of most of his charges it is too late 'A Fields Suit—QO’Coat or Tuxedo For Him FOR HIS CHRISTMAS GIFT— SILK TIES | THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, to do anything but restrain the indi- vidual and thus temporarily protect the community. He sees no reason why he should not use the opportunity which he has, how- ever, to study his men, aided by the psychiatrist and psychologist and social worker, and thus be able to furnish so- ciety much valuable data to aid in its greatest battle—the battle of preven- tion, the battle against, not the crimi- nal, but the causes of his crime. A tender solicitude for the yellow- fever victim did not deter the scientist from making war upon the conditions which brought it about. Cleaning out the swamps which bred the mosquito saved thousands of lives where quinine saved one. Not Concerned With Amusement, ‘We are not concerned with the amuse- ment of the prisoner. We are not con- cerned in his immediate welfare. And that prison which attempts to apply the modern notions of prison treatment by simply lightening the punishment is not fulfilling its mission. A prison warden who gives privileges, who gives amuse- ment to his inmates through fear is almost as dangerous as the man who treats them with cruelty and with bar- barism. We are concerned with his ul- timate improvement. So often we hear a specious cry, and I have no doubt many of you have echoed it in your own hearts: “We have spent_too much time on the criminal let’s have some sympathy for his vic- tim.” And my contention is that the more we change the criminal into a law- abiding citizen and the more through modern and scientific method we reduce the number of criminals, the more real sympathy we are showing for the unfor- tunate victims. “Who turns his back upon the fallen and the disfigured of his kind, abandons them as vile and does not trace and track with pitying eyes the unfenced precipice by which they fell from good does wrong to heaven and man, to time and to eternity.” Obviously, then, the work must be divided. Experts should specialize in— 1. Prison-~industries. 2. Parole. 3. Education and welfare. 4. Supervision— (a) Paroles. (b) Probation. (c) Jails. 5. Business and fiscal supervision. Too often have the main objects of prisons or other institutions been suh- merged in the pressure of attention to business details. Business administra- tion should be consolidated under a competent force and a separate organi- zation providing for dre'- ‘th the main objects of a prison system. Silk Mufflers These experts should have an ade-j quate number of assistants, and be lead- | ers in their profession. H Some Reasons For Increase. It is perhups idle to speculate upon the reasons for the great increase in Federal crime. It is well known that recently there has been a transference of many offenses from the State to the Federal Government. The narcotic act, the liquor legislation, the Dyer auto- mobile act and the Mann white slave act have tremendously increased Fed- eral crime problems. Without discuss- ing the wisdom or unwisdom of such departures in the criminal field, we are confronted by a fact and not a theory. Whether there are to be further expan- sions along these lines depends upon Congress, but it is quite certain there will be no immediate diminution in the number of Federal offenders. For relief from the present intoler- ably overcrowded condition the Gov- ernment must depend upon— (a) Development of probation system. (b) Transfer of drug addicts to spe- cial institutions. (c) New institutions. (d) Reduction of the chances of re- cidivism through constructive rehabili- tation work in the prisons. - We can take a Christian attitude without being unduly sentimental. We can apply scientific discoveries to our task without overlooking the practical reactions of the problem. In the adoption of some such ex- panded penal program an opportunity will be presented to secure for the Gov- ernment a long-deferred position of leadership in penal affairs. 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