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Show PENAL SYSTEMS NEED REFORM By CHARLES H. TUTTLE, United States Attorney, New York. Thoroughgoing reform of both state and federal penal systems has been shewn by the recent prison riots to be a foremost and most urgent public problem. The lines of reform in our own state are not difficult to e. One prison should be set aside as a reception prison where preliminary prelim-inary physical, mental and moral examinations should be made, in order to determine classification, segregation and the ultimate place of confinement. confine-ment. In each prison there should be a psychiatric board ; a S3'stem of vocational voca-tional training under the state department of education; modern standard stand-ard shops ; the financial equalization of all prisoners by a system of restricted pay for work done, in substitution for money received from outside; adequate observance of the laws of hygiene; and credit in time oft tor good behavior and industrial accomplishment. The state also could beneficially employ such of its prisoners as required outdoor life in the reforestation of nontiilahle lands or in the operation 6f prison farms. Among reforms needed in the federal system of penalogy are the construction of a penitentiary in the northeastern part of the United States, from which section comes the greatest number of prisoners now in Atlanta; the appointment of parole officers to superviee the large number of federal prisoners out on parole and a parole board working on scientific scien-tific lines. |