Show LU TO It ls Ia a common OMon thing to sole 01 among prisoners to city It or county 1511 for lor short bort terms I who an re slightly demented 4 Yore Kore than tUIi other otherwise It is noted that the men tat tal unbalance t Is a chief call cause of the slight oleD for the tbell persons PIa are 11 incarcerated The Tb guilty ores OMI are an not Dot regarded as AI dangerous so 10 t far as relates latel to lO that going at Jar large hence It is I hoped that short bort pUl punish lb moate will them Ibm to cau cause them to retrain refrain In future from the wrongdoing which brought them trouble This bl method of treating d criminals which prevails prevail to a great t ter or er or less Ie silent throughout UI the United State is I 1111 raising a prot protest from the h medical fraternity which In maters aUt of oC this kind klad I usually found on side of humanity and common seas In com commenting upon Ih the sending tC of d de people to Jail the New ork Medical Record says lAya Th The feet fact has bat beers demonstrated that In addition to being ID an expensive manner of treating t I is also allO Inhuman to a degree 1 In the earlier stages of Insanity If the malady 1 is treated Intelligently tb the chances ot of re Nt eov art are very err favorable while It If an ano o opposite course Is pursued the majority of 01 axes calel will become Incurable and aDd chronic The practice of condemning an insane person to jail like a common criminal t Is unworthy of oC I a rich and nd Christian land lanel landAs As AI to the Uti salutary erect ot of jam jailing 4 de minted It II doubtful If two instances I In a hundred can an be found where whre such neb a procedure her bu prevented e a repetition of crime On the contrary Ns natural tendency I is to still further depress and d weaken the mentality of the to accustom him to lo criminal surrounding and d to promote rather than discourage an to crime Wherever It I b clear that a person accused or of an 0 offense against the law II I Influenced thereto b by dementia he should bould be consigned to n the insane rather titan then to the criminal ward In or order order der that his first should be front from the physician of 01 from the jail warden |