Second Biennial Report of the State Board of Corrections and Charities to the Legislature of Minnesota


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Excerpt from Second Biennial Report of the State Board of Corrections and Charities to the Legislature of Minnesota: For the Biennial Period Ending July 31, 1886 The board of corrections and charities offers recommendations to the legislature on the following subjects. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.










Fifth Biennial Report of the State Board of Corrections and Charities to the Legislature of Minnesota


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Excerpt from Fifth Biennial Report of the State Board of Corrections and Charities to the Legislature of Minnesota: For the Biennial Period Ending July 31, 1892 Ratio of insanity in counties having above inhabitants. 125 46. Number of inmates of Minnesota state institutions. 1860 to 1892 126 47. Number and ratio of insane patients from each county. 127 48. Ratio of insane persons to inhabitants, census of 1890 128 49. Semi-annual enumeration of prisoners, 1888 to 1892 129 50. Semi-annual enumeration of paupers, 1890 to 1892 130 51. Ratios of semi-annual enumeration of paupers 131 52. Details of semi-annual enumeration of paupers 132 53. Workhouse expenses for four years. 134 54. Workhouse current expenses for two years 135 55. Workhouse convicts, nativity 136 56. Length of workhouse sentences. 137 57. Lockups - described 144-152 58. Lockups - movement of population. 153 - 156 58. Attorney general's report of prosecutions 158 59. County jails - description 159 60, 61. County jail expenses, 1890 - 1891 1 161 62, 63. County jails - movement of population, 1890 - 1891 1 165 64. Pauper relief - expenses for four years 1 91 65. Pauper expenses in 26 counties 66. Pauper expenses - highest and lowest 67. Ratio of paupers and ratio of expense 68. Poor farm inventories 69, 70. Poor house expenses 71, 72. Movement of poor house population 73. Sex, age and nationality of poorhouse inmates 74. Directory of charitable institutions and societies. 75. Statistics of charitable institutions and societies 76. Detailed account of the expenses of the board. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.




Fourth Biennial Report of the State Board of Corrections and Charities to the Legislature of Minnesota


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Excerpt from Fourth Biennial Report of the State Board of Corrections and Charities to the Legislature of Minnesota: For the Biennial Period Ending July 31, 1890 Section 1. The governor, with the advice and consent of the senate, shall appoint six (6) persons, not more than three (3) of whom shall be from the same political party, who shall con stitute a state board of corrections and charities, to serve without compensation, their traveling expenses only being de frayed by the state; two (2) of whom, as indicated by the governor upon their appointment, shall serve for one (1) year, two (2) for two (2) years, and two (2) for three (3) years; and upon the expiration of the term of each, his place, and that of his successor, shall, in like manner, be filled for the term of three (3) years. The governor shall be ex-oflicio a member of said board and the president thereof. Appointments to fill vacancies caused by death, resignation or removal before the expiration of such terms, may be made for the residue of terms in the same manner as original appointments. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.




Biennial Report of the State Board of Corrections and Charities to the Legislature of Minnesota


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Seventh Biennial Report of the State Board of Corrections and Charities to the Legislature of Minnesota


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Excerpt from Seventh Biennial Report of the State Board of Corrections and Charities to the Legislature of Minnesota: For the Biennial Period Ending July 31, 1896 The Rochester State Hospital, like that of St. Peter, is seriously overcrowded, containing at the present time nearly patients in quarters that cannot suitably accommodate more than The condition of the institution has been much improved by the completion of the domestic building, which contains an admirable kitchen, congregate dining room for patents and employes, and a fine amusement hall. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.




Biennial Report of the State Board of Corrections and Charities to the Legislature of Minnesota


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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1887 edition. Excerpt: ...days of the Irish famine, entered upon a wholesale destruction of shop windows in Dublin, Belfast, and elsewhere, in order that they might be committed to jail, where the county authorities would be compelled to provide for their wants, a practice which was only stopped by closing the jails and refusing to commit the offenders. I fancy, also, a literary objector, smiling as he recalls, as something about as likely to succeed, the machine which Mr. Easy-invented, with which heproposed to reform criminals by putting their heads in a vise, and compressing their bumps "of destructiveness and acquisitiveness, until, with the disappearance! of the phrenological bumps, all disposition to steal, burn or murder should have disappeared. But such objections indicate a total misapprehension of the scope of these suggestions. It is not intended to coddle the prisoners; on the contrary, the discipline of such institutions is exceedingly strict and irksome to those to whom it is applied. Indeed, until the process of reformation has reached a stage where reformation is nearly or quite accomplished, the convicts confined at Elmira much prefer to be transferred to the state prison at Auburn. The constant scrutiny to which the conduct of every inmate is subjected, unless the convict really desires reformation and sees in the rules adopted a sincere design to benefit him, is almost unbearable. The moment the allurements of the reformatory have become attractive, that moment the convict has ceased to be a criminal. By the incorrigible criminal no punishment is more dreaded than the confinement in a reformatory conducted in the manner suggested. Again, it may be urged that the inducements to good conduct ottered will cause much of hypocrisy and pretended...