Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 February 1893 — It Weakens the Brain. [ARTICLE]

It Weakens the Brain.

Imprisonment tends to weaken the brain, Bays a Philadelphia police official. This places a released criminal, especially one who has served a long term, at a deoiled disadvantage in his efforts to bury the past and begin life anew. I do not believe that these so-called homes for reformed convicts wield muoh influenoe, if any, in molding the future of criminals. The tendency, it occurs to me, would be to bring together a dangerous olass of crooks who might Improve the occasion to conooct schemes of outlawry.