Show keeping them in jail T alb calef of police of los angeles charges that convicts i arc are paroled braveh wore freely than they should be because the prison board needs the room for convicts com lets lie ile urges that another prison be built lie ile claim claims that tin thi arinio bill of Califor california nL a is 00 0 a year anil that a small part of this annual expense mould provide accommodations for ft greater number of prisoner and they could bo be kept in confinement over a lough period of time etl the state it this u way ay could fun mi e macit oar ear more than the total coit colt of the tho new it sounds like good economics eco to keep in a jail a conflicted criminal for a much jan low col than ho be would be to society if given hie hig liberty that society has bas a i light ight to keep under restraint thoe who are a menace to it while free there can be no dispute this right is the only one ono ne 0 o have to do an anything thing to those who d do wrong a theoretically our whole criminal system is pnAt protective etive in its character wo we punish as a warning to others as well wel as t tu the individual divi loual punished not to commit such nets acts in the there is no other justification for punishment which is merely an act of yen taken away anny from frota the person irjud and executed by society as a wh lc unless it is purely protective in its purpose undoubtedly the roost most complete protection society can agn gac c itself ia ii to keep under restraint absolutely separated from others those who arc are a menace to it that being so it is evident tha thal I 1 length of time one should thus be isolated depends upon the degi t of mev ace be is ta society and not tot upon the nature of anything tony thing he lie may ay have done acts may bo be used al ai an indication of the sort of menace but not as tda to a cont of the menace after a specified term of isolation the actual mental state of the individual debem determines nea ilic of danger to involved in in lia lis freedom to go about at will ivill carried to itt logical conclusion it fellows that having once placed an individual under restraint because of acts harmful to so clety he ho should bo be kept isolated as long as he would bo be a menace if at harty 1 1 arty that means life restraint in some cases but should not no mean is ns we ave now build them our present criminal juris and ana jail system is i s vengeful in spirit and illogical in principle and find we arc are getting mighty poor results from it |