Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 May 1893 — It-Weakens the Brain. [ARTICLE]

It-Weakens the Brain.

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