apart, that they may not harm the more innocent prisoners.

The different groups will be kept entirely separated, and those who are
young in crime will never come across the old offenders.

The first group will have the greatest care from the prison officials.
Every effort will be made to guide its members into better ways of life.
They will be looked after by a physician, who will give them plenty of
exercise and training to make their bodies strong. There will be a regular
system for educating them, and training their minds into the knowledge
that to be happy they must be good, and that sensible men will obey the
law.

When they are sent back into the world after their term of imprisonment
is over, they will have learned how to be useful and honest men, and every
effort will be made to help them to lead good lives.

The next, Group B, and also Group C, will be treated in much the same sort
of way as Group A, except that these groups will be disciplined more
severely than the first one.

Little time will be wasted over Group D. The men in it will be treated in
the ordinary way, and the only especial attention they will get will be to
see that they are never mixed with the other groups.

It is hoped that, through these means, many men who are not really
criminals at heart may be brought back to decency and good citizenship.

New York State is not alone in this desire to reform its criminals.