A Study in County Jails in California

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California State Printing Office, 1916 - Počet stran: 115
 

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Strana 99 - Code, relating to the prevention of blindness, and making an appropriation therefor. The people of the State of California do enact as follows: 1 SECTION 1.
Strana 98 - The s,aid board of managers shall also have power to establish rules and regulations under which prisoners within the reformatory may be allowed to go upon parole outside of the reformatory buildings and enclosure, but to remain while on parole in the legal custody and under the control of the board of managers and subject at any time to be taken back within the enclosure of said reformatory...
Strana 95 - It is hereby made the duty of the state department of public [social] welfare to prescribe forms of record for the use of the superintendents of county hospitals and almshouses, and jailers in charge of county jails and city prisons, in keeping the records of persons received into or discharged from such county hospitals, almshouses, jails and city prisons.
Strana 95 - ... investigate, examine, and make reports upon the charitable, correctional, and penal institutions of the state, including the state hospitals for the insane, of the counties, cities and counties, cities and towns of the state, and such public officers as are in any way responsible for the administration of public funds used for the relief or maintenance of the poor in public institutions or of any of the inmates of said institutions.
Strana 98 - Managers shall have power to establish rules and regulations under which any prisoner who is now, or hereafter may be, imprisoned under a sentence other than for murder in the first or second degree, who may have served the minimum term provided by law for the crime for which he was convicted, and who has not previously been convicted of a felony, and served a term in a penal institution, may...
Strana 97 - When any child shall be sentenced to confinement in any institution to which adult convicts are sentenced, it shall be unlawful to confine such child in the same...
Strana 93 - They have access to the library of over 4,000 volumes. On summer evenings and on Sundays the inmates are permitted to take the benches out into the yard, where it is possible to enjoy more freedom and have an abundance of fresh air. "In one of the buildings referred to there is a shower bath and arrangements for the inmates to make their toilets.
Strana 93 - During the evening and after the day<s work is done and on Sundays, the men are taken to a large building known as the Rest Hall and Library, where they are permitted to talk, play checkers, read the daily newspapers, which are bought for them by the management, and they have access to a library of over 4,000 volumes.
Strana 96 - When there is no jail in the county, or when the jail becomes unfit or unsafe for the confinement of prisoners, the county judge may, by a written appointment filed with the county clerk, designate the jail of a contiguous county for the confinement of the prisoners of his county, or of any of them, and may at any time modify or annul the appointment.
Strana 4 - ... floors, over which are spread dirty mattresses and blankets. "Bad as the physical conditions in county jails may be, they are less of a problem than that aspect of the situation which might be referred to as prison discipline. One key to the difficulty lies in the fact of enforced idleness. . . . The great majority of convicted men are simply locked up in cages like wild animals. They may twiddle their thumbs, they may exchange stories of criminal experience, they may gloat over perverted justice,...

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