This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1910 Excerpt: ... the laws thereof, under the like penalties as in the case of prisoners committed under the authority of such states, respectively. In 1825 Congress passed "An Act more effectively to provide for the Punishment of Certain Crimes against the United States, and for other purposes." This act omitted from the criminal code ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1910 Excerpt: ... the laws thereof, under the like penalties as in the case of prisoners committed under the authority of such states, respectively. In 1825 Congress passed "An Act more effectively to provide for the Punishment of Certain Crimes against the United States, and for other purposes." This act omitted from the criminal code of the government the punishments of whipping and standing in the pillory, and adopted for the first time a system of punishments of confinement to hard labor. This act provided that: "In every case where any criminal convicted of any offense against the United States shall be sentenced to imprisonment and confinement to hard labor, it shall be lawful for the court by which the sentence is passed to order the same to be executed in any state prison or penitentiary within the district where such court is holden; the use of which prison or penitentiary may be allowed or granted by the legislature of such state for such purpose." It is worthy of note that the change in the character of the punishments prescribed in these acts marks the change between 1790 and 1825 in the prevailing sentiments of the people as expressed by the legislatures of the several states in regard to their penal laws. Pursuant to the recommendation of Congress, the legislatures of the states which at the time composed the Union, passed laws which permitted the use of their penal institutions for federal prisoners; other states from time to time as they were admitted into the Union, passed similar laws, and in this manner the government adopted the practice of making use of state institutions in which to confine United States prisoners. The practice of using the jails of the states for the detention of persons charged with crimes against the United State...
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