Proceedings of the Annual Congress of the American Prison AssociationW.B. Burford, 1916 |
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Stran 378 - The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, or whither it goeth, so is every one that is born of the spirit.
Stran 459 - A pardon reaches both the punishment prescribed for the offense and the guilt of the offender; and when the pardon is full, it releases' the punishment and blots out of existence the guilt, so that in the eye of the law the offender is ae innocent as if he had never committed the offense.
Stran 312 - THE human mind has certain innate or inherited tendencies which are the essential springs or motive powers of all thought and action, whether individual or collective, and are the bases from which the character and will of individuals and of nations are gradually developed under the guidance of the intellectual faculties.
Stran 55 - To draw one beauty into our hearts' core, And keep it changeless ! such our claim So answered, — Never more ! XIV. Simple ? Why this is the old woe o' the world ; Tune, to whose rise and fall we live and die. Rise with it, then ! Rejoice that man is hurled From change to change unceasingly, His soul's wings never furled ! xv.
Stran 23 - The improvement of the penal, correctional and reformatory institutions throughout the country, and of the government, management and discipline thereof, including the appointment of boards of trustees and other officers.
Stran 494 - The care of, and providing suitable and remunerative employment for discharged prisoners, and especially such as may or shall have given evidence of a reformation of life.
Stran 459 - A pardon is an act of grace, proceeding from the power intrusted with the execution of the laws, which exempts the individual on whom it is bestowed from the punishment the law inflicts for a crime he has committed.
Stran 492 - Corresponding members may be appointed by the Board of Directors, or by the Executive Committee.
Stran 101 - ... of criminal anthropologists. They challenge their evidence at almost every point. In fact, both with regard to measurements and the presence of physical anomalies in criminals, our statistics present a startling conformity with similar statistics of the lawabiding classes. The final conclusion we are bound to accept until further evidence, in the train of long series of statistics, may compel us to reject or to modify an apparent certainty •^-our inevitable conclusion must be that there is...