AMERICAN PRISONS
TREATMENT OF JUVENILES
SHOCKING DISCLOSURES
WASHINGTON, 7th July
President Hoover has received the Wickersham Law Enforcement . Committee's report on a, detailed study of juvenile offenders iv tho United States. The report assorts that nearly all Federal juvenile offenders are placed in living quarters which aro in "poor repair, insanitary, and not fire-proof."
It. is also stated: "Punishment, in. dark colls is given for trivial offences, land imprisonment in a guard house. such as six days, for the possession of I ono two-eont postage stamp, is iiuposled."
' According to the report boys are 1 shackled-in various types of leg-irons, Ithe flogging system is widely misused, and over-crowding is widely reported. The medical aid at one prison for juveniles is said to bo "to stave off epiidemics rather than to treat those who :bro obviously seriously ill."
Pood supplies are alleged to be generally inadequate, and tho "hardest (punishments aro generally found in tho institutions for the reform of tho looting."
The six months ending 31st Docem- : 'b(M\ 1!),'!0, saw 22A'\ boys aud gi"?is under yi.-ars of ago incarcerated, 990 lt>f wlinm v. eve convicted on prohibition ■charge*:
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 8, 9 July 1931, Page 9
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188AMERICAN PRISONS Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 8, 9 July 1931, Page 9
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