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Speaking before an audience of 50 people in Littauer Auditorium, Dr. Van Waters urged the adaption of modern scientific methods in penal institutions. New gains in psychiatry and social work she claimed, can be used to help educate prisoners and give them a feeling of self-respect and responsibility...
...second major defect occurs in the transfer of patients from the department of mental health to the penal department for defective delinquents, under the Bureau of Correction. As the system now stands, a person may be transferred from the first institution to the second for simple violation of rules...
...thus be sent to the penal institution without having committed any crime, and is forced to mingle with hardened criminals...
...would assure private counsel for defendents. The hearings would be before a special session of the superior court, which would assure special and complete attention to the cases. To remedy the transfer system, the students have made up a list of certain crimes which would allow admission is the penal institution. This would insure that all patients committed to the correction institute would be dangerous criminals
...Herald, but unlike most Boston papers, it often has the courage to shriek in crusades against political shenanigans and incompetent bureaucrats. Last year, its able newshen Sara White wrote a series which helped reinstate Miriam Van Waters, a competent reformatory superintendent who had been fired for too progressive penal methods. Last week, Reporter White also won freedom for a pregnant mother of four children, imprisoned for neglect without having been given legal counsel. But neither the Traveler nor any other Boston paper printed the prison record of J. Joseph Connors, appointed an election commissioner in 1948 by Mayor James Curley...