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51st includes "Prison laws of the State of New York" (p. [157]-998)
Excerpt from Report of the Committee on Treatment of Persons Awaiting Court Action and Misdemeanant Prisoners: Presented at the Fifty-First Congress of the American Prison Association, Jacksonville, Florida, 1921 This Committee holds the opinion that no subject to be considered by this Congress is of more importance than the treatment of persons awaiting court action and misdemeanant prisoners. In the first place they far outnumber all other persons who come under the consideration of the penologist. The census of 1910 shows that about 92 per cent of all sentenced prisoners were misdemeanant prisoners committed to county jails, workhouses, and houses of correction. This makes no account of p...