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of parole and to the Division of Parole Supervision in determining the nature and degree of supervision desirable for each paroled man.

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1. On the basis of its findings the Committee recommends that the Parole Board seriously consider the placing of its work on a scientific basis by making use of the method of statistical prediction of the non-violation or violation of parole both in the granting of paroles and in the supervision of paroled men. One competent statistician could compile the necessary information from the records and still further develop the accuracy of prediction by this new method.

2. That the Parole Board, as well as all other organizations dealing with the problem of crime, submit before publication its annual statistical report to a statistical expert or competent committee for analysis and auditing the same. This is necessary in order to obtain public confidence in the validity, not only of the figures, but of the method employed.

CONCLUSION

The Committee wishes to express the opinion that in the wisdom of its legislation on the indeterminate sentence and parole, Illinois is not surpassed by any other state, and that in the generosity of its appropriation for parole administration, for which the legislature for 1927 is to be commended, it is now possible more than in any other state in the Union for an adequate parole system to be developed and maintained. The Parole Board and the Departmnet of Public Welfare in cooperation with the police, the courts, and the penal and reformatory institutions of the state, have a unique opportunity for taking the next great forward step in the constructive solution of the crime problem through the rehabilitation of the criminal.

The Committee repeats its conviction that the indeterminate-sentence and parole laws should be continued, but that their administration can and should be improved both by the placing of the work of

the Parole Board on a scientific and professional basis and by further safeguards against the constant pressure of political influence.

The Parole Board should enjoy the standing and independence of the Supreme Court of Illinois in order to discharge fully its equally great responsibility, and the compensation of its members should be the same as that of the judges of the Supreme Court in order to attract and to hold men and women of the highest qualifications. Parole has not yet had a fair trial in Illinois or elsewhere. The Committee appeals to the Legislature and to the people of Illinois to give it the conditions most favorable for its success.

Respectfully submitted,

ANDREW A. BRUCE

ERNEST W. BURGESS

ALBERT J. HARNO

The Committee on the Study of the Workings of the Indeterminate-Sentence Law and of Parole in the State of Illinois

TO HON. HINTON G. CLABAUGH, Chairman

Parole Board

CHICAGO, ILLINOIS
August 16, 1928

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INDEX

INDEX

Administration, prison: at Joliet,
162; at Menard, 179; at Pontiac,
144. See Parole administration
Adult education, 159, 175; problems
of, 138, 140, 141; and reading, 141,
160

After-care of convicts, 8, 45, 71, 123;
responsibility for, 72

Age when paroled, 230

Alton, first state penitentiary at, 23
Amusement fund at Pontiac, 143
Analysis of months served in com-
parison with sentence, 245
Appropriations, 46, 71.

Aptitude of inmates, 157; and rehab-
ilitation, 188

Associates in crime, number of, in
relation to conviction, 222
Attitudes toward work, 155

Bakery, work in, 133

Barber shop, work in, 133

Barnard, Henry, 29

Baseball for recreation, 143, 161
Beccaria, 8

"Benefit of clergy," 14, 43
Bentham, Jeremy, 49
Black, Jack, 33

Blacksmith shop, work in, 131, 173
Board of Pardons and Paroles, estab-
lishment of first, 40. See Parole
Board

Board of Paroles: duties of, 3; func-
tion of, 3. See Parole Board
Board of Prison Management, 37
Books: censorship of, 142; need for
142, 160; number in circulation,
Joliet, 160; system of circulating,
141, 160, 176

Botkin, C. O., 87, 218

Boy probationers, 116-17

Boys, supervision of, 196f

Boys' school, see St. Charles

Brick making at Menard, 173

Bruce, Andrew A., iii, xi, 1, 268

Burgess, Ernest W., iii, xi, 203, 268
"Busy-work," 127, 136, 173
Buxton, 25

California, length of penal service
in, 48

Calvinistic theory of punishment, 13
Carpentry, work in, 132, 173
Cells, equipment of, 147 f.

Cell instruction: at Menard, 176;
need for, at Joliet, 159

Chaplain: contacts with, 149, 159,
161; duties of, at Joliet, 161; and
librarian at Pontiac, 135

Chester, see Menard

Children, parole supervision of, 194,
195

Cincinnati Prison Congress, 49
Circulation of books, 160

Civil Administrative Code Act, 67
Clabaugh, Hinton G., vii, ix, 46, 49,
67, 71, 73, 191, 199, 256

Classical School of Penology, 15, 20
Clerks, work as, 134

Combe, George, 49

Committee: function of, 4; plan of,
x; recommendations of, 253 ff.
Confinement, solitary, 31, 146, 179 f.;
abuse of, 32; and demotion, 166,
179
Congestion, 147, 156, 184; bad effects
of, 70, 180; difficulty of segrega-
tion, 147, 168; in schoolroom, 159
Contract-labor system, 26; abused.
158

Convicts: English, 9; farming out of,
26; slavery, 26

Cooks and commissary, work of, 134
Cost: of crime, v; of idleness, 154;
of parole, 46; of prisoners, 47
Courts and probation, 93
Crime: cost of, v; distribution by
counties, 88, 89

Criminals: habitual, 38, 205, 208;
number of, confined, 46; rehabili-
tation of, 123 ff.; repeal of habit-
ual act, 38

Criminal Code: of 1827, 21; of 1833,
23

Crofton, Sir Walter, 29, 49

Definite sentence, distinction be-
tween indeterminate and, 75. See
Fixed Sentence; Flat sentence
Demotion, 163, 166, 179, 180. See
Good-time allowance; Progressive
Merit System

Department of Public Welfare, cre-
ation of, 44

Deputy at New Prison, 166

Discharged parolees, status of, 218
Discipline, 144, 162, 177, 179; and

mixture of types, 167; relieving
tension of, 168; in schoolroom, 175

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