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Show -oo TREATMENT MAY CURE CRIMINALS Matteawan. N Y Sept 10. A meeting of tho state prison wardens called here today for tho purpose of considering medical treatment for prisoners as soon as they are received re-ceived may result in sweeping penal reforms, if the wardens act favorably on the medical testimony to bo presented. pre-sented. It Is the first official stp taken In this stato along tho lines proposed by the American Prison Reform association at its meeting In Omaha. The proposed reforms are based upon up-on observations of criminals in different dif-ferent penal institutions of tho country, by which it is shown that most crimes committod are tho direct rosult of incompetency arising from phjsical as well as mental defects In the criminal. The remedy to consider con-sider which tho meeting Is called, is tho medical inspection of all prisoners prison-ers and the correcting of all such crime inducing ailments while tho subjects are serving terms, bo that on being set at liberty the causes of criminality will no longer be present to lead to a recurrence. This was the plan adopted by theAmerican Prison Reform association, and upon which some of the middlewestorn states have already acted. |