The Journal of Prison Discipline and Philanthropy 1919 (New Series, No. 58) — John Shaqi
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The Journal of Prison Discipline and Philanthropy 1919 (New Series, No. 58)
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_Second._--The Commission further recommends that the General Assembly
provide by appropriate legislation for the employment of all the
able-bodied convicts of the Commonwealth in useful and, so far as
possible, in productive labor, and especially, that it vest in the
Committee on Delinquency the powers of the Prison Labor Commission and
the functions of the Business Agent of such Commission and enlarge such
powers and functions as suggested on page 15 of this report.
_Third._--The Commission further recommends the enactment of a law
establishing four State Industrial Farms, to receive, care for and
provide for the useful employment of the inmates of county prisons and
jails and of persons hereafter convicted of any offense punishable
by imprisonment in any county jail or prison who have been or shall
hereafter be sentenced for a term of thirty days or more.
_Fourth._--The Commission further recommends that the Act of Assembly
approved July 17, 1917 (No. 337), providing for the employment, during
the continuance of the war, of inmates of county jails at agricultural
labor on any county or almshouse farm, be amended so as to continue its
operation indefinitely after the conclusion of peace.
_Fifth._--The Commission further recommends that the General Assembly
provide for the purchase of a tract of land, of not less than 600
nor more than 1200 acres, to be used for the benefit of the Eastern
Penitentiary as a prison farm.
_Sixth._--The Commission further recommends that a law be enacted
prohibiting fees or allowances and contracts for furnishing meals
to the inmates of county jails or other penal institutions of the
Commonwealth.
_Seventh._--The Commission further recommends that the Act approved
June 19, 1911, authorizing the courts in the case of a person sentenced
to a penitentiary to fix as the minimum term of imprisonment any period
less than the maximum prescribed by law for the offense of which such
person was convicted, be amended by a provision that the minimum limit
of the sentence imposed shall never exceed one-third of the maximum
prescribed by the Court.
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