The Medico-Legal Journal, Vol. 28

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Excerpt from The Medico-Legal Journal, Vol. 28: June-December, 1910Now, it has some advantages over imprisonment. In the reports of the State Probation Commission it is stated that to maintain ris oners, which on an average are in our State prisons, costs the tate every year something like a million and a quarter dollars, and that to maintain and care for the ten thousand and odd prisoners who are in our Country penitentiaries, and local prisons, costs something like a million and three-quarters, or a total for both those classes of something like four million dollars to care for people who are punished by incarceration. This is a very large item of expense. It costs the State (quoting from this same source of information) to care for between seven and eight thousand probationers, about sixty-two thousand dollars. It would be much better if the State had spent a larger sum. But, sup pose that were doubled, and we had spent a hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars, in really doing all that ought to be done for the pea le who are placed on probation, it would have been evidently, so far as is seven or eight thousand persons are concerned, a more economical method of accomplishing the discipline, the mere reformation, the oversight, the punishment - if you choose to call it that - which the State deems it uccea sary to impose.There are a number of other economies resulting from the substitution of the probation for the prison system. It is impossible when a man is in prison to earn money, and support his family. It is. Essential that he should. It is much more economical than shutting him up in prison, and cutting off his income.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.