This penitentiary is like the thieves who fell upon the traveller to Jericho, it strips its victims of their raiment, and leaves them half dead.
The spirit of the penitentiary system finds there no place to lay its head.
A more unsound and disgraceful principle of penitentiary discipline, was never avowed by any similar committee in this country before; but it is the very one on which all American penitentiaries are governed.
Will the Secretary of this Society be so good as to inform the public in his next Report, how much service the Chaplain in the Vermont Penitentiary renders for his salary of three hundred dollars?
Sustained then by my own personal experience and observation, I say fearlessly, that the solitary confinement plan, is an unwise, unfeeling, and ruinous innovation upon the Penitentiary discipline.
His life meant penitentiary to you; his death meant liberty.
He knew that the penitentiary was yearning for him; and he knew that every moment of his life was shadowed by the threat of penal servitude.
It is absurd to argue that life in the penitentiary is conducive to moral betterment, for all the conditions are against this cheerful theory.
Making such a nuisance of herself in the penitentiary as no longer to be tolerated in a refined convict community, she proves her madness.
If the adult should steal personal property as this babe steals food wilfully, the penitentiary would be his end.
When a criminal returns from penitentiary or prison he is shunned by society; he is under the eternal vigilance of our police force--he is walked upon and pushed down.
There should be some means under the law to send all such to the penitentiary and keep them there.
Out of the penitentiary for some petty crime committed, or having been a go-between for thieves and the person who buys the goods stolen, the Jewish youth for the time being takes to trampdom.
In short, the jail or the penitentiary becomes a sort of winter vacation resort for tramps.
While Mike was running the place at 89 Dearborn street he became involved in an affair that put him in jail for three months and made the portals of the penitentiary loom up largely across his path.
Illustration: United States Penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas; the best and most modern Penitentiary in the United States if not in the world.
Professional gamblers--professional swindlers, should be sent to the penitentiary and kept there.
A few months ago he narrowly escaped the penitentiary for taking $225 from a sixteen-year-old child.
One evening of May, 1856, King published, in the Bulletin, copies of papers procured from New York, to show that Casey had once been sentenced to the State penitentiary at Sing Sing.
Even the prisoners and convicts of the penitentiary were released on condition of serving as soldiers, and the cadets were taken from their military college for the same purpose.
Similarly draw a line from the map position of penitentiary toward its actual position.
Each single contour shows the shape at its particular level of the hill or valley it outlines; for instance, the 880 contour about the penitentiary shows that the hill at that level has a shape somewhat like a horse's head.
How can I tell him that I first saw her when a visitor to the penitentiary among the female prisoners?
Then how does it happen, Mr. Stark, that you were confined at the Joliet penitentiary for a term of years?
They ought to be sent to the poor-house or penitentiary forthwith.
The penalty is a fine of from ten to fifty dollars, and confinement in the penitentiary from one to two years.
Heike's sentence was commuted so as to excuse him from going to the penitentiary; just as the penitentiary sentence of Morse, the big New York banker, who was convicted of gross fraud and misapplication of funds, was commuted.
Banks, who was serving a very long term penitentiary sentence for an attack on a girl in the Indian Territory; "the reason for the commutation which is set forth in the press being that 'Banks is in poor health.
All of the criminals were released from penitentiary sentences on grounds of ill health.
The courts' reports do not classify by color, but we can learn something from the census enumeration of 1904 of the prisoners in the New York County Penitentiary and the New York County Workhouse.
This man was suspected, was tried and found guilty, and was sent to the penitentiary for life.
A man died in the Columbus penitentiarysome years ago who had spent over thirty years in his cell.
The next morning he pleaded guilty, and was sent to the penitentiary for nineteen years.
If he attempts to testify as to the Basin lands, I'll have him in the penitentiary in ten days.
This surprised him, for he had entertained not the slightest doubt that the threat of the penitentiary would bring Bob to terms.
I'll land you in the penitentiary a week after you appear in court.
I was approaching my twenty-first year, when, as you will see, I was to go to thepenitentiary for the first time.
A few months before I was sent to the penitentiaryfor the first time, I had my only true love affair.
The Penitentiarysystem is the result of the refinement of the eighteenth century.
Now, what is the Lynch law but the Penitentiarysystem carried out to its full extent, with a little more steam power?
Rule 12th, for the internal government of the Penitentiary of Georgia.
Bates, as one of the Penitentiary guard, was sent with another to carry him and others, from other counties to Milledgeville.
The Penitentiary at Hobart Town contains about six hundred prisoners, and is the principal receptacle for newly-arrived convicts.
Myself and several other convicts, who were sentenced at the same session, were removed from Newgate to the Penitentiary at Millbank.
There have been a number of tragic events in the history of the penitentiary of which perhaps the most thrilling was the attempted escape of a large number of prisoners during the wardenship of Mr. McClees in 1891.
This system of constructive labor by the inmates of the penitentiary is to be attributed largely to the intelligent business conceptions as well as philanthropic interest in the men by Mr. F.
Both have been students of criminology, are thinkers and philanthropists, and have inaugurated advanced methods which have placed the Washington penitentiary in the front rank of well conducted institutions of its class.
Emma Goldman passed her time in the penitentiary in the capacity of nurse in the prison hospital.
From the reformatory to the penitentiary had been the path of this boy's life, until, broken in body, he died a victim of social revenge.
She was found guilty and sentenced to serve one year in the penitentiary at Blackwell's Island.
He was sentenced to the penitentiary for a long term.
Johns Hatfield afterward served a short term in the State penitentiary at Frankfort for participation in the night attack on the McCoy home and murder of Allifair and Calvin McCoy.
The sentence was for confinement in the penitentiary for life.
After his removal to the penitentiary he pursued similar tactics for a time, but there they broke him.
