Annual Report, Volume 28, Parts 1903-1911New York State Reformatory at Elmira, 1904 |
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00 Balance Available 00 Expended Accounts Payable acute amount Auburn prison average number awkward squad board of managers capita per diem Cash on hand cell block cent chaplain Chapter 433 Chapter 578 Chapter 700 committed construction Cost of Maintenance crime criminal Dannemora Dannemora State Hospital diphtheria discharged Domestic Building Eastern New York Electric Elmira College Elmira Reformatory ending September 30 Expended fiscal Expended to September expiration Farm and Garden fiscal year ending grade grand larceny gymnasium insane institution instruction Instructors and Parole JOSEPH F Laws legislature Maintenance Allowance Melancholia ment mental military months Napanoch number of inmates number of prisoners October Officers and Employees Parole Agents pipe Plumbing Re-appropriated Chapter received reform Reformatory at Elmira Repairs and Equipment Returned for violation Returned from parole school of letters sentence special appropriations STATEMENT Superintendent Total number Trades School Building Transportation of Inmates tuberculosis violation of parole York Reformatory York State Reformatory
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Page 68 - I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, — but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
Page 12 - It shall be the duty of said board of managers to maintain such control over all prisoners committed to their custody, as shall prevent them from committing crime, best secure their self-support and accomplish their reformation.
Page 30 - A person so paroled shall remain in the legal custody and under the control of the board, until his absolute discharge, as provided by law.
Page 36 - A woman between the ages of fifteen and thirty, convicted of a felony, who has not theretofore been convicted of a crime punishable by imprisonment in a state prison...
Page 30 - When it appears to the said managers that there is a strong or reasonable probability that any prisoner will live and remain at liberty without violating the law, and that his release is not incompatible with the welfare of society...
Page 67 - The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight. But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night.
Page 12 - Any person who shall be convicted of an offense punishable by imprisonment in the New York State Reformatory, and who, upon such conviction, shall be sentenced to imprisonment therein, shall be imprisoned according to this Act, and not otherwise.
Page 12 - The term of such imprisonment of any person SO convicted and sentenced shall be terminated by the managers of this reformatory, as authorized by this act, but such imprisonment shall not exceed the maximum term provided by law for the crime of which the prisoner was convicted and sentenced.
Page 66 - No man is born into the world, whose work Is not born with him; there is always work, And tools to work withal, for those who will; And blessed are the horny hands of toil!
Page 16 - Harvard is reported to have recently said: "nobody knows how to teach morality effectually without religion. Exclude religion from education and you have no foundation upon which to build a moral character." We believe that this is true and that worthy of special mention in this connection is the good accomplished by the quiet, but faithful work done by the three clergymen regularly connected with the institution, Professor William H. Chapman, Reverend Father Me Crone and Rabbi Jacob Marcus.