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...will probably be astonished to hear that Boston has more criminal prosecutions per population than New York or Chicago or, with very few exceptions, any American, Canadian, or English city," says Sam Bass Warner '12, Professor of Penal Legislation and Administration in his book "Crime and Criminal Statistics in Boston" which will be published in a few days as the second volume in the Harvard Crime Survey series...
Herman Kantorowicz, who under the Hitler regime, was dismissed from his post as Professor of Penal Law and History at the University of Kiel, will speak to the Harvard Liberal Club Sunday evening. The title of the speech, which will be given at 7.30 in the Winthrop House Common Room, will be "Types of Modern Dictatorship...
...problems of our society, should not be touched; the large type is reserved for those who are either helpless or insignificant, who can be expected to feel the storm without retaliation. Superintendent Gill of Norfolk presented an obvious opportunity. He is a subordinate state official, engaged in a revolutionary penal experiment, without important political or financial backing. He has, as the administrator of sizeable appropriations, made many important political enemies. Prisons are good copy for the sensational journalist; the common-place of any prison life, skillfully stated, can easily assume the character of a public scandal. Mr. Osborne was driven...
...superintendents of state prisons are removable "at the pleasure of the Commissioner of Correction," who is an appointee of the governor. The tenor of Mr. Hurley's investigation, which was authorized by the governor to extend not only to the Norfolk accounts but to the whole of the state penal structure, is such that Commissioner Dillon is obviously disqualified from passing judgment on its findings. This leaves the decision in Governor Ely's hands; but he has shown a tendency to give it back to Mr. Dillon, and has already opposed the appointment of a commission for the hearing...
...difficult to see that this confusion results from a failure to distinguish between an investigation of particular conditions at Norfolk, which would have fallen to the province of Commissioner Dillon, and a general penal investigation, whose outcome belongs to Mr. Dillon's superior. Governor Ely is at fault in not having made this distinction, in giving carte blanche to Mr. Hurley and then in refusing to face the implications which that carte blanche contained. whatever adjustment he may make must be a rough adjustment, for particular and general issues must be differently handled, and their fusion in the Auditor...