Report of Proceedings of the Seventh International Prison Congress, Budapest, Hungary, September, 1905

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1907 - 173 páginas
 

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Página 161 - to extend to the International Prison Congress an invitation to hold the Eighth International Prison Congress in the United States at such time and place as may be determined by the executive committee of the congress known as the International Prison Commission.
Página 57 - I have said, declare that it shall remain forever inviolate, requiring a convention or an amendment to alter it — that there can be no substantial ground for fear that any of us will live to see the people consent to give it up.
Página 57 - The jury system is so fixed as an essential part of our political institutions ; it has proved itself to be such an invaluable security for the enjoyment of life, liberty, and property for so many centuries; it is so justly appreciated as the best and perhaps the only known means of admitting the people to a share, and maintaining their wholesome interest, in the administration of justice...
Página 160 - Resolved, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the President be, and is hereby authorized...
Página 160 - December 18, 1903. The PRESIDENT: The undersigned, Secretary of State, has the honor to lay before the President, with a view to their transmission to Congress for the information of that body, in connection with the correspondence already transmitted, relating to the recent revolution on the Isthmus of Panama and contained in House Document No. 8, Fifty-eighth Congress, first session, parts 1 and 2, copies of the correspondence between the Department of State and the legation of the United...
Página 75 - ... or to those having dependent families, etc. If exceptions to the principle, such as those mentioned above, are recognized as inadmissible, it would seem timely to consider whether it might not be expedient to create for all prisoners, or for certain classes of them, special incentives to encourage them to labor, and especially to make the reduction from their sentence of the time passed in prison while awaiting trial conditional on their voluntary acceptance of work during such preliminary imprisonment....
Página 161 - That the President be, and is hereby, authorized and requested to extend to the International Prison Congress an invitation to hold the Eighth International Prison Congress in the United States at such a time and place as may be determined by the executive committee of that congress, known as the International Prison Commission.
Página 5 - SIR — I have the honor to present herewith a report of the work of the Division of Inspections for the year 19o2.
Página 21 - ... it would seem timely to consider whether it might not be expedient to create for all prisoners, or for certain classes of them, special incentives to encourage them to labor, and especially to make the reduction from their sentence of the time passed in prison while awaiting trial conditional on their voluntary acceptance of work during such preliminary imprisonment. Question 3. — Upon what principles, in what cases, and on what basis shouH indemnities be allowed to prisoners, or to their families,...
Página 57 - ... share in maintaining their wholesome interest in the administration of justice; it is such an indispensable factor in educating them in their personal and civil rights...

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