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...first the investigation was confined to an examination of county jail prisoners, but later it was thought advisable to extend the study to the more serious offenders in penal institutions of the State, and to the criminal and the civil insane. The investigation so begun has now developed, on the anthropological side, to a survey of criminals in selected areas of the country at large...
...asked the city for $100,000 to pay for his trial as a public official. When this astonishing request was refused, Borough President Connolly resigned. The Governor's investigation changed from one to determine Connolly's fitness for office, to one to determine his fitness for a penal cell...
...National Crime Commission, to which national figures volunteer their energy, intelligence and time-Frank Orren Lowden as chairman of a subcommittee on pardons, penal laws and institutional correction; Newton Diehl Baker as chairman of a committee on rehabilitating criminals and acting chairman of the whole; Franklin Delano Roosevelt as chairman of a committee on legal education; F. Trubee Davison as executive committeeman -last week published a report by Mr. Lowden's committee. Written by Commissioner Louis Newton Robinson, experienced professor of economics and criminology, this report set forth, as prime cause of crime's prevalence...
...Capital of Queensland, founded in 1825 as a penal colony by Sir Thomas Makdougall Brisbane, Scottish soldier and astronomer who was then Governor of Australia...
...Matter of an indecent, lewd, lascivious, obscene, libelous, scurrilous, defamatory or threatening character" is barred from the U. S. mails and the sender is subject to a fine of not more than $5,000 or not more than five years imprisonment or both- Section 212, U. S. Penal Code...