THE IDEAL OF A TRUE PRISON SYSTEM FOR A STATE
By Z[EBULON]. R[EED]. BROCKWAY
Superintendent of the Detroit House of Correction
The institutions and instruments through which the purposes of the board of guardians may be realized are:
1. A STATE POLICE, OR CONSTABULARY.—The experience of Massachusetts in this in matter of a state constabulary has been of a mixed character, it is true, but then the experiment is of recent origin and has not yet been fully made, the act creating it having passed as late as 1865. The irritations and uneasiness under it may be attributed to the friction incident to all innovations, and Mr. Sanborn, late secretary of the board of charities for that state, is decidedly favorable to its continuance. Should there be doubt about making a change so general as that of Massachusetts, there certainly can be no great objection to giving to this central board power to direct the sheriff, or a deputy sheriff, in each county, for their particular work, which is an easy and economical way of affording them indispensable aid.