Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 December 1892 — It Weakens the Brain. [ARTICLE]

It Weakens the Brain.

Imprisonment tends to weaken the I rain, says a Philadelphia police official. This places a released criminal, especially one who has served a long term, at a decided disadvantage in his efforts o bury the past and begin life anew. I o not believe that these so-called homes for reformed convicts wield much influence, if any, in molding the future of criminals. The tendency, it occurs to me, would bo to bring together a angerous class of croons who might improve the occasion to concoct schemes o' outlawry.