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Show uu COMMITTEE REPORTS. Baltimore, Nov. 14. Thc report of the commlttco on discharged prisoners, prison-ers, read at Weduesday's session ot thc American Prison congross. said that official supervision of the leased prisoner Is Important. It also declared that It Is extravagant extrava-gant for the stale to expend a considerable con-siderable amount of money in the caro and training or the prisoner during imprisonment if after release the state expends little or no money on the period of parole or rehabilitation of the prisoner. The principle of parole pa-role Is accepted in the report as commendable. com-mendable. The problem of prevention and probation pro-bation was dealt with in a report from a special committee Alcoholism and tuberculosis, associated asso-ciated with poverty, the committee regarded as the most potent influence influ-ence in producing mental defectiveness. defective-ness. Thc committee urged the diffusion dif-fusion of knowledge concerning eugenics eu-genics among tho masses. |