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When Thomas Mott Osborne '84 speaks at Phillips Brooks House tomorrow evening on "Crime and Criminals," members of the University will have an opportunity to hear one of the most noted prison reformers in America.
Always a progressive, Mr. Osborne has from the first met with violent opposition from the old school of prison administrators. He was appointed warden of Sing Sing Prison in December, 1914. He wiped out the rank corruption among the officials and improved the unbearable living conditions of the inmates, but his activities aroused jealousy and fear among his political opponents, who made an attempt to remove him from his position.
He was indicted by the Westchester County Grand Jury for "perjury and neglect of duty", just the things he had tried to wipe out at Sing Sing. Indignation was aroused throughout the country, however, and the judge dismissed the indictment without even bothering to hear the defendant's plea He finally resigned in October, 1916 after completing his reform at Sing Sing
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