RECAPITULATION OF RECOMMENDATIONS FOR LEGISLATIVE ACTION. It is recommended by the State Board of Charities: 1. That a system of Suspended Sentences, with supervision by probation officers, be adopted for the treatment of Juvenile Offenders (page 47). 2. That § 2824 of the General Statutes be amended so that boys under ten years of age may be committed to the Connecticut School for Boys, who are convicted of offenses punishable by imprisonment in jail as well as in State Prison (page 47). 3. That all of the County Jails be brought under the control of a State Commission of Prisons (pages 24 and 49). 4. That a State Reformatory be established for offenders between sixteen and thirty years of age (pages 25 and 49). 5. That a system of District or County Almshouses be legalized to take the place of the present town almshouses (page 61). 6. That a new institution be established for the purpose of a State Almshouse (page 62). |