Author: Cass, E. R.
Title: The County Jail Must Go
Description: Albany: J. B. Lyon Company, Printers, 1923. Softcover. First edition in book form (reprinted from the Seventy-eighth Annual Report of the Prison Association of New York); 9 x 5 3/4; pp. 7; beige wraps printed in black; a bit of dust-dulling and age-toning to wraps; a few sentences underlined in pencil; small cut to tail of spine; illustrated with photographs; overall in very good condition. Edward R. Cass was the General Secretary of the American Correctional Association for 40 consecutive years and in 1962, he was honored with the creation of the E. R. Cass Correctional Achievement Award in his name. In his current report, Cass vehemently opposed lesser correctional institutions such as county jails and penitentiaries, calling them "debasing, filthy training schools of vice and hopelessness." He stated that jails needed a radical reform, for their subjecting prisoners to idleness and no systematic instructions, instead of academic and vocational training. He also attacked the system of a mandatory one-term-only appointment of a Sheriff, responsible for supervising the jail, without any practical knowledge of running such institution. A few copies in institutions, none other in the trade (as of May 2015). Ill.: 0. 2.

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