One of New Yorks early prison reformers, a prominent businessman - TopicsExpress



          

One of New Yorks early prison reformers, a prominent businessman by the name of Thomas Mott Osborne, founder of the Osborne Association, spent a week as a voluntary convict in Auburn prison to get a sense of what happened to men within prison walls. Before he left, the story goes, he threw himself on his knees and prayed for the strength to spend the rest of his life trying to reform the prison system. Until his death in 1926, he spoke out against the senseless brutality of prisons and sought to turn what he referred to as thescrap heap of the prison system into a human repair shop.Almost a hundred years later, many criminal justice advocates are still having the same discussion.Jennifer Wynn
Posted on: Sat, 29 Mar 2014 01:58:39 +0000

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