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...that time its occupant has been Bostonian Sanford Bates. Calvin Coolidge gave him the job of running Massachusetts' prisons nearly 18 years ago. So great grew his fame as a penologist that Herbert Hoover brought him to Washington, Governor Franklin Roosevelt and Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia tried in vain to lure him into the services of the State and City of New York. Having kicked politics out of the antiquated prison system and built 16 model Federal prisons, last week Penologist Bates resigned, turned over his job to his Assistant James V. Bennett, to try his hand at crime prevention...
...record, to correspondents of their own nationality, they said that Germany had been unmasked by her Minister of Justice in the act of creating a penal code which had little to do with Justice as that term is understood by Anglo-Saxons. The split between Germany and her penologist guests appeared to them so wide that a majority resolved informally to remain silent and enter no discussion. They noted with upped eyebrows that Dr. Gurtner called explicitly for "severity in the treatment of prisoners so that the punishment may be appropriate to the evil." This German reversion...
Warden Lewis Edward Lawes of Sing Sing Prison was in London last week inspecting Scotland Yard. Consequently the nation's most publicized penologist was not on hand to celebrate the initial appearance of a monthly magazine called Prison Life Stories, of which he was billed as editor...
Three or four times, during the course of his short address Bates made what were taken by the audience to be indirect references to the Norfolk investigation. Upon one occasion he remarked that, "Penologists are handicapped, at every turn, by the fickleness of public opinion, and by what seems to be almost a deliberate attempt to misunderstand the new ideas of penology." This remark closely followed by another, that, "Prisons appear to be the biggest, shiniest target in the world. Anything that goes wrong is fair meat for almost anybody. A penologist's life, if I may borrow from Gilbert...
...CRIMSON was informed, after the hearing that, "At the time of Mr. Bates' appointment to Commissioner of Correction in Massachusetts, some years ago, the Boston Herald editorialized the story as a 'terrible appointment.' Since then, of course, Mr. Bates has become internationally renowned as a penologist...