Word: maccormick
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Early one morning last week several carloads of men, led by New York City's thin, purse-lipped new Commissioner of Correction Austin Harbutt MacCormick and his stocky aid David Marcus, descended the elevator from the Queensboro Bridge, made Welfare Island a surprise visit. By sundown Commissioner MacCormick had lifted the lid off Welfare Island and given city. State and nation a terrifying glimpse into the nether depths of prison life. "The worst prison in the world," pronounced Commissioner MacCormick, whom new Fusion Mayor LaGuardia had enlisted from the Federal Bureau of Prisons to clean up penal scandals left...
First stop on the itinerary of Commissioner MacCormick's raiding party was a cell-block largely tenanted by narcotic addicts who whimpered in their blankets, begged their visitors for "just a little shot." In their littered cells were found electric stoves, pots, pans, hatchets, butcher knives, lengths of lead pipe, needle-pointed stilettos (see cut). Some narcotics were discovered, a complete hypodermic set, blackened spoons in which "dope" had been cooked, needles and gouges with which inmates without syringes gashed themselves to let the precious drugs into their veins. To the police it looked more like a hop house...
...plan for a carefully worked out system of education for criminals has been proposed by A. H. MacCormick, assistant director of the United States Bureau of Prisons. The program is the result of a detailed study of penal conditions throughout the country which testified that immediate and drastic changes are necessary if American penal institutions are to fulfill their purpose effectively...
...nothing but a feeling of bitterness against society and the state. Under the present regime it is debatable whether the released prisoner is any more competent to adjust himself correctly to the demands of organized society than before his incarceration. The educative plan of Mr. MacCormick has been urged with the end in view of remedying this primary evil of maladjustment, and to inculcate a fuller sense of social responsibility...