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Proper Work For Prisoners

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Parent Issue
Day
20
Month
January
Year
1897
Copyright
Public Domain
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Experiment has proved the feasibility of employing prisoners on work outside the prisons, iike road-making, drainage, building, farming and other operations of the aort. This will probably be found the wise way to employ them. Keep them at somethiug useful outside. They are a permanent class, cornposingeverywliere a definite percentage of the mass of society, and ought to be turned to the best economie use which may also be the best for their reformation. They are capable of doing a great deal of good under eulightened and scientific management, and receiving a greater measure of it than has been possible under the methods heretofore prevailing. The crimináis of the State would leave a great mark on the public works of the State if their energies were permanently and systematically turned in that direction. But they must not be left idle. "That way madness lies." The crime of keeping them locked up with nothing to do would be alinost as great as any of those of their own commission which they were thus expiating.- Ar. Y Tribune. An article on Indian Wampum Records, by Horatio Hale, the anthropologist whose death in his Canadian home was recently reported is to appear in Appletons' Popular Science Monthly for February. The use of wampum as money and the recording of events by means of the patterns traced on wampum belts are two inventious which Mr. Hale rates as evidences of high intelligence.

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Old News
Ann Arbor Courier