FORM 6-REFORMATORY FOR WOMEN OR GIRLS

tution any (a) (girl) (b) (woman) who may be sentenced by any court of the United States to a term of imprisonment of not less than one year.

SECTION 10.

Said board of directors shall constitute a board of parole and discharge. Any inmate of the institution who has been in confinement within said institution may, upon recommendation of the superintendent, be allowed to go on parole in the discretion of a majority of the board.

SECTION 11.

While upon parole, each inmate of said institution shall remain in the legal custody and under the control of the board of directors, and subject at any time to be taken back to said institution for any reason that shall seem sufficient to said board. Whenever any paroled inmate of said institution shall violate her parole and be returned to the institution, she may be required to serve the unexpired term of her maximum sentence, computed from the date of her parole, in the discretion of the board of directors, or she may be paroled again if said board of parole so decides. The request of said board of directors, or of any person authorized by the rules of said board, shall be sufficient warrant to authorize any officer of said institution or any officer, authorized by law to serve criminal process within this state, to take any inmate on parole into actual custody, and it shall be the duty of police officers, constables, and sheriffs to arrest and hold any paroled inmate, when so requested, without any written warrant, and for the performance of such duty, the officer performing the same, except officers of said institution, shall be paid by the board of directors of said institution out of the institution's funds such reasonable compensation as is provided by law for similar services in other cases. SECTION 12.

If any inmate shall escape from said institution or from any keeper or officer having her in charge or from her place of work while engaged in working outside of said institution, she shall be returned to said institution when arrested, and may be disciplined in such manner as the board of directors may determine. All the provisions of Section 11 relating to the arrest and return of paroled inmates shall apply to the arrest and return of escaped inmates.

SECTION 13.

The board of directors may return to the committing court or other appropriate court any inmate committed to said institution, with recommendations for the transfer of such inmate to a prison, jail, hospital for the insane, institution for the care of the feeble-minded, or other appropriate institution to which such inmate might have been committed in the first instance, and thereupon the said court may cause such inmate to be committed to an appropriate institution or dealt with according to law.

SECTION 14.

If it shall appear to said board of directors that any inmate on parole, although not having completed her maximum term, has maintained a satisfactory record, and will continue to lead an orderly life if discharged, said

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board, by a unanimous vote of all the members present at any stated meeting thereof, may discharge such inmate from said institution.

SECTION 15.

If any woman committed to said institution is, at the time of her commitment, the mother of a child under one year of age, such woman may retain such child in said institution until it attains the age of two years, when it shall be removed therefrom. The board of directors may cause such child to be placed in the care of a suitable agency for the care of children in this state and pay for the care and maintenance of such child at the rate fixed by law until the mother of such child shall be discharged, or may commit such child to the care and custody of some relative or proper person willing to assume such care and pay for such child at the same rate, if deemed necessary. Any child of a woman committed to said institution, who is over one year of age at the time of its mother's commitment, and who might otherwise be left without proper care and guardianship, shall be committed by the trial court, upon the same terms as to payment as herein provided, to a suitable agency for the care of children in this state, or to the care and custody of some relative or proper person willing to assume such care. If a child be born to any woman while an inmate of such institution, such child may be retained in said institution until it shall be two years of age, when it shall be removed therefrom. The board of directors may cause such child to be placed in the care of a suitable agency for the care of childreǹ in this state, and pay for the care and maintenance of such child at the rate fixed by law until the mother of such child shall have been discharged, or may commit such child to the care and custody of some relative or proper person willing to assume care, and pay for such child at the same rate, if deemed necessary.

SECTION 16.

The board of directors, in making rules and regulations for the government of said institution, shall make provision for a broad system of hygiene (including informational hygiene, health advice, and physical training) for a system of general and vocational instruction, including useful trades and domestic science; for agricultural work; and for proper recreational facilities. SECTION 17.

This act shall take effect from its passage, except such provisions as provide for the commitment, custody, and treatment of inmates, which shall take effect upon issuance of the proclamation by the governor as provided for in Section 4.

SUGGESTIONS

FOR A STANDARD FORM OF LAW FOR THE EXAMINATION AND COMMIT-
ment of Feeble-minded Persons and for the EstabLISHMENT
OF AN INSTITUTION FOR THE CUSTODIAL CARE OF
SUCH PERSONS

[Though no standard form of law for use in the various states is presented here, owing to the difficulty of drafting a law to meet local conditions,

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without a special study of each state's need, the fundamental points to be cov ered in such a law can be listed as follows.]

1. Administration and Supervision.

General. By some state board or commission.

Special. Boards of trustees for each institution.

2. Care.

(a) In special institutions, such as state schools for the feeble-minded. (b) In general institutions, having departments for defective delin

quents.

(c) In families.

3. Commitment.

(a) Persons committed (defining the type of persons who are committable).

(b) Legal procedure (stating what court or courts shall have power to commit and designating the procedure necessary for commitment). (c) Medical qualifications of persons given authority to sign commitments.

4. Conveying Patients to the Institution.

(Designating a state or local official or unofficial person authorized to apprehend and convey a feeble-minded person to the institution to which he has been committed.)

5. Transfer of Patients.

(Designating the condition under which an inmate of one institution may be transferred to another, or from one place to another within the state, or from one state to another.)

6. Parole and Discharge of Patients.

7. Cost of Maintenance.

8. Guardianship and Supervision.

9. Special Education.

10. Marriage.

11. Sterilization.

12. Defective Delinquents.

(It is a matter of the greatest importance that cognizance be taken of this special group, especially when the problem of venereal diseases is being studied in relation to the problem of feeble-mindedness.) In general, laws relating to the problem of the defective delinquent should provide that the court, upon the certification of two physicians, may commit the "case" to a department or institution for defective delinquents when it appears that the offender is mentally defective and not a proper subject for a school for the feeble-minded. In this way these offenders, instead of being placed in penal and correctional institutions, jails, houses of correction and the like, will receive care and treatment suited to their condition.

In conclusion, it is again recommended that persons desiring detailed information regarding laws on the subject of feeble-mindedness shall communicate with the National Committee for Mental Hygiene, 50 Union Square, New York City.

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THE RATIO OF FEEBLE-MINDEDNESS AMONG Apprehended PROSTITUTES IS AT LEAST FORTY TIMES GREATER THAN THE RATIO AMONG MEN OF THE

36 Reported by Pearce Bailey, M. D., late colonel, M. C., U. S. A., chief of section of neurology, Office of the Surgeon General, Washington, D. C. The prevalence of feeble-mindedness in the general population has been estimated as follows:

Miner, J. B., Deficiency and Delinquency, page 55..
Rosanoff, A. J., M. D., “Nassau County Survey," (Number in
this county)...

37 Special studies have shown percentages as follows:
California School for Girls, 124 cases.....

0.5 %

0.52%

34%

New York Probation and Protective Association, 500 cases..
Michigan sex offenders with venereal disease, 900 cases......
Women delinquents in New York state, white, English-speak-
ing only, judged by army standard, 447 cases...

.37%

24%

22%