Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 December 1900 — Topics at a Prison Congress. [ARTICLE]

Topics at a Prison Congress.

Among the topics which called forth considerable discussion at the International prison congress held recently at Brussels was that of securing from an offender reparation for the injured party. Various suggestions were made, such as the appropriation of fines, of the earnings of prisoners or of compelling some kind of guarantee of reparation on the liberation of prisoners. There was some discussion of manual labor and especially instruction in “sloyd,” advocated particularly by Mr. Haymann, of New- Orleans. Some English delegates dwelt upon the general value of agricultural training and openair labor.