Word: prisons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When assigned the task of investigating the prison system of Massachusetts, Auditor Hurley was ordered by Governor Ely not to give out any information until the report should be completed. The League for Independent Political Action's Committee on Prison Justice recently ascertained that the many exaggerated and alarmist years about Norfolk, which appeared from time to time in the Boston Herald, came direct, from Mr. Hurley's office to their State House reporter...
This situation is, of course, unjust to Superintendent Gill. He and not Commissioner Dillon, has been made the target for an attack on the entire Massachusetts prison system. Mr. Hurley has done yeoman work in making the knot more difficult by violating the governor's injunction against publicity, and by spreading through the newspapers a hopeless mass of sensational and unclassified criticism. The first inference to be drawn from Norfolk is that it would be desirable to place prison officials under civil service, in which a consistent disciplinary mechanism has been evolved. If Mr. Gill had been under civil service...
...yesterday's article, R. Clark Christie, discharged bookkeeper and treasurer at Norfolk, was incorrectly referred to as an inmate. Mr. Christie was not an inmate, but a resident at the prison...
...Gill's administration at Norfolk, he declined to comment, saying that he would present all the facts in the case in his report, but that he did not intend to interpret these facts. He stated that it was against his wishes that his investigation of the Norfolk Prison Colony burst into print recently, and that its extensive publicity was due to the avidity of news-hungry reporters. When asked why he had issued his lengthy statement warning against interference with the investigation the day after Henry A. Murray '16, Assistant Professor of Psychology scored the "pack of hounds" who were...
...been forced to take to the political field in self defense against his attacker's storm of criticism. The unnecessarily violent controversy has already made inroads upon the morale of Norfolk, and thrown a specialized and non-political institution into the quagmire of partisan dispute. That a technical prison investigation should be conducted by an auditor is inappropriate enough; but that the newspapers and public should consign it to the limbo of ward politics is grave injustice to a public servant whose honesty, ability, and usefulness to the state have never before been questioned...