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Prison Discipline
December 14, 1918 issue

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The article focuses on the issue of discipline in prisons. The sharpest challenge to the wisdom and skill of the prison administrator in questions of discipline within the prison. If a prisoner is disobedient the prison governor too often knows no more effective or rational course than to break his will by sheer physical pressure. This policy of breaking the will by physical coercion is deliberately and intentionally maintained in military prisons. Those who support prison reforms must press their efforts till the whole business of dealing with law breakers is made to conform with modern purposes and with modern psychology, hygiene and social ethics.

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PRISONS; DISCIPLINE; LAW & ethics; SOCIAL ethics; CORRECTIONAL institutions; IMPRISONMENT
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