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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...which the President is backing, means the release from the Federal prisons sooner and oftener. This is not the idea at all. Superinintendent Bates is recommending as the National Probation Association has been for many years, more probation officers be employed in the courts to deal with offenders, especially first offenders, before they ever get to prison...
...pass a special civil service examination. All of them are trained, experienced men in the work. Their duties are to investigate and report to the judges on offenders convicted but not yet sentenced by the court. They investigate the home conditions previous history and real character of offenders, especially first offenders, many of them young boys, who reach the Federal courts because they have committed an offense against Federal laws. If the report and recommendations of the probation officer convince the judge that the young offender can safely be released under a suspended sentence, and with strict rules of probation...
...paid probation officer will be placed in every Federal court and that in the larger courts, which handle thousands of these cases, there may be several officers, to make the probation treatment close and effective. Not only will this development relieve Federal prisons from a large number of first offenders who never need to go but it will reclaim thousands of them, and eventually will save the Government far more than the salaries of these officers...
...President & Mrs. Hoover attended the Quaker meeting house on Sunday, for the first time since they began going to their Virginia camp last summer...
Patron Eckstein: "I never dreamed Otto Kahn would come here. . . . He came for the first time nine years ago and never missed a season since...