Word: warden
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York, N. Y., June 2--The decision of Harvard University to inaugurate next fall a training course for prison wardens, the executive heads of penal and similar institutions, seems likely to meet with the hearty approval of penologists. Two of the most active men in the field in the vicinity of New York, Warden Lewis E. Lawes of Sing Sing and Commissioner of Corrections Richard C. Patterson, Jr. of New York City, today were enthusiastic over the possibilities of such a course, according to the New York Evening Post...
...Warden Lawes hailed the departure as bringing into the prison administration field a new class of men who, possessing intelligence as well as a humanitarian background, will adopt the work as a career to replace the haphazard political appointees serving as wardens in almost all prisons outside of New York State...
...commenting on the curriculum which was announced yesterday said, "It is high time some institution of learning took this step. We have highly trained and well-paid judges and lawyers. But in the past we have tended to turn the sentenced offender over to a jail whose warden is supposed to see rather that the 'debt to society is paid' than that the offender is corrected...
...course overlook the fact that a number of penal officials without the benefits of a college and graduate education have done outstanding work in the field. The names of Commissioner Herbert C. Parsons of the Massachusetts Board of Probation and Warden Lawes of Sing-Sing readily occur to one in that connection. But for the most part prison wardens, a large number of whom have worked up from the position of prison guard, have less than a high school education...
Last week near Manoa, Pa., Farmer John Trout showed Game Warden Robert T. MacFarlane a bald eagle with a wingspread of better than seven feet which he had slain with two blasts of his shotgun. Warden MacFarlane exonerated Farmer Trout on the strength of Mrs. Trout's story: that she had seen the great bird swooping into the farmyard to carry off their daughter Dorothy...