Annual Report of the Prison Association of New York for the Year ..., Volumen50 |
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Annual Report of the Prison Association of New York for the ..., Volúmenes63-66 Vista completa - 1908 |
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Página 45 - This section shall not be construed to prevent the Legislature from providing that convicts may work for, and that the products of their labor may be disposed of, to the State or any political division thereof...
Página 38 - ... not contrary to law, as they may deem proper, and may appoint such officers, agents and servants as they may deem necessary to transact the business of said association, and may designate their duties.
Página 45 - January, in the year one thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven, no person in any such prison, penitentiary, jail or reformatory, shall be required or allowed to work, while under sentence thereto, at any trade, industry or occupation, wherein or whereby his work, or the product or profit of his work, shall be farmed out, contracted, given or sold to any person, firm, association or corporation.
Página 35 - Statutes, are declared to belong to every corporation ; and shall be capable of purchasing, holding and conveying any estate, real or personal, for the use of said corporation : Provided, that...
Página 37 - The officers of the association shall be chosen annually at the annual meeting, at which time such persons may be elected honorary members as shall have rendered essential service to the cause of prison discipline. ARTICLE IX.
Página 42 - It shall be the duty of the committee on discharged convicts : 1. To correspond with prison agents or superintendents relative to the character and trades of prisoners, and to ascertain, previous to the discharge of each prisoner, his feelings, views and capabilities, with a view to making the best arrangements for his future employment 2. To keep a record of all persons who will employ discharged prisoners, and of their several occupations ; to procure such employment for prisoners applying therefor...
Página 42 - ... making the best arrangements for his future employment. 2. To keep a record of all persons who will employ discharged prisoners, and of their several occupations; to procure such employment for prisoners applying therefor as seems best adapted to the capacity of each ; to hold correspondence with employers ; to keep a record of the conduct and prospects of those for whom places have been obtained, that they may be sustained and encouraged with the idea that a continued friendly interest is felt...
Página 36 - hall have a general superintendence and direction of the affairs of the society, and shall annually report to the society all their proceedings, and such other matters as shall be likely to advance the ends of the association.
Página 36 - Any person contributing annually to the funds of the association not less than five dollars shall, owing to such contribution, be a member thereof. A contribution of five hundred dollars shall constitute a life patron; a contribution of one hundred dollars shall constitute...
Página 37 - And it is hereby further enacted, that no manager of said society shall receive any compensation for his services. § 3. The said executive committee shall have power to establish a workhouse in the county of New York, and in their discretion to receive and take into the said workhouse all such persons as shall be taken up and committed as vagrants or disorderly persons, in said city, as the court of general sessions of the peace, or the court of special sessions, or the court of oyer and terminer,...