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in his report before the National Prison Associa- 

 tion, said: "One thousand two hundred and 

 forty-eight of our inmates had a common-school 

 education, 13 had an academic education, 6 a Religious 

 collegiate education, leaving only 120 uneducated Training, 

 out of 1,383 now in Sing Sing. * * * Of the 

 865 received during the last fiscal year, 766 had 

 attended Sunday-schools when boys, 862 were 

 brought up at home, and 3 by strangers. Of the 

 1,368 convicts in the Auburn State Prison, New 

 York, 1,182 were liberally educated." 



Statistics from the Inebriate House of Fort 

 Hamilton show that out of 600 inmates only 59 Prison Reports, 

 were uneducated, 88 had received a rudimentary 

 training, 341 enjoyed a common school educa- 

 tion, while 112 were college bred thus 453, or 

 three-quarters, were liberally educated. In Eng- 

 land about 10 per cent of the convicts are illiter- 

 ate, one-sixth are college bred, and 50 per cent 

 have a common school education. 



From the foregoing statistics and they are 

 much in accord with my own observations and Percentage of 

 the reports from other prisons and reformatories ^ i& ^y- 

 it will be seen that the percentage of illiteracy 

 among criminals is only a trifle below that of the 

 normal population. The same may be said in 

 regard to religious training, all of which tends Heredity and 



to show that the intellectual and ethical training Postnatal 



rr- Influences* 



that comes to the average man is not sufficient to 



prevent his lapse into crime in his present en- 

 vironments if dominated by a bad inheritance. 

 In making this statement I do' not wish to be 

 understood as questioning the advantages of edu- 

 cation, ethical training or religious influences; I 



