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seems important, therefore, to find out how the Roman Catholic hierarchy has
more recently been represented behind the bars of
The
following letter-questionnaire was sent to 287 institutions:
Total
number of inmates
Number
of Protestants
Number
of Catholics
Number
of Jews
Other
No
religious affiliation
From
my study, I have abstracted the percentages of Roman Catholics in
When
this information is used to revise the statistics, one sees that the proportion
of Catholics in the total population is less than that shown in Table 11, and
the high percentage of Catholic criminals becomes even more striking.
These penitentiary figures were not merely guessed at by a parish priest.
The individuals listed
themselves as Roman Catholics. In
other words, where the actual Colorado State Penitentiary figures show 41.9 per
cent against a hierarchical boast of 16.7 per cent, or almost exactly two and a
half times as many Catholics in jail as their percentage outside, the true
figures are probably four to one.'
Total
Population
Prison
State
Population Population
Draper Prison
2.8
Negro Industrial School
4.4
Tutwiler Women's Prison
3.0
State Cattle Ranch
0
Boys' Industrial School
4.1
Convent of the Good Shepherd 50.0
Girls' Training School
3.3
Fargo School-Girls (Negro)
0
Folsum Prison
38.3
San Quentin Prison
33.3
Preston State School-Industrial
48.7
Fricot Ranch School-Bovs
46.0
Prison
State
Population Population
Los Guilucos School-Girls
60.3
Coarsegold Forestry Camp
57.1
Paso Robles School-Boys
49.1
Ventura School-Girls
49.7
Devel Vocational Institution
44.6
State Industrial School-Boys
70.0
Long Lane School
39.1
Department of Corrections
27.8
Prison
S tate
Population Population
State Penitentiary-Menard 24.4
State Boys' Training School 33.9
State Farm
18.9
State Penitentiary-Pontiac 32.0
State Reformatory-Women 19.8
State Girls' Training School 29.0
Indiana Woman’s Prison
14.8
Iowa Training School-Boys
12.7
Anamosa Men's Reformatory
18.2
Iowa Training School-Girls
13.8
Women's Reformatory
20.8
Industrial School-Boys
7.1
State Industrial Farm-Women
15.2
State Industrial Reformatory
22.4
Beloit Industrial School-Girls
10.1
Catholic
Catholic
Prison
State
Population Population
Kentucky Women’s Reformatory 10.3
State Industrial School-Girls
28.0
Industrial School-Negroes
17.2
State Women's Reformatory
38.8
State Schol. for Boys
37.2
State Reformatory-Men
19.8
Shirley Industrial School-Boys
80.5
Cassidy
Girls' Training School-Adrian
28.2
State House of Correction
36.4
Prison
State
Population Population
State Training School-Boys
30.8
State Reformatory-Women
38.2
Home School-Girls
29.0
Chillicothe Training School-Girls 11.5
Training School-Negro Girls
16.7
Intermediate Reformatory
20.8
State Training School-Boys
17.5
Vocational School-Girls
51.0
State Reformatory-Women
23.7
Prison
State
Population Population
7.
7.
Girls' Welfare Home
61.3
Inst. Male Defective Delinquents
42.1
Green Haven Prison
45.4
State School-Warwick
52.2
State Training School-Girls
31.7
Woodbourne Correctional Inst.
51.4
Sing Sing Prison
41.3
Wall Kill Prison
44.1
State Vocational Institution
60.1
Butner Youth Center
4.2
East Carolina Training School
0.7
Stonewall
Prison
State
Population Population
%
70
North Dakota Training School
48.1
State Training School-Negro Girls 11.1
MacLaren School-Boys
14.0
Hillcrest State School
18.4
State Penitentiary-Graterford
27.0
Penn Training School
28.3
Industrial Home-Women
26.1
Providence Co. jail-Howard
68.4
State Reformatory-Men
75.3
State Reformatory-Women
53.8
So.
So.
Prison
State
Population Population
Richards Industrial School
1.0
Brushy Mountain Penitentiary
5.7
Vocational School-Girls
1.2
Vocational School-Girls-Colored 5.7
State School-Colored Girls
3.4
Women's Reformatory
53.3
Weeks School
49.5
Virginia Industrial School-Boys 5.9
Virginia Labor School-Negro Boys 0
State Industrial Farm-Women
6.2
Bon Air Industrial School
3.3
Prison
State
Population Population
State School-Girls
30.1
W. Va. Industrial School-Negro Boys 2.2
W. Va. Industrial School-Boys
1.9
Wisconsin Home for Women
47.5
The
Catholic press contends that large numbers of these prisoners are mere nominal
non-practicing Catholics, or the children of nominal Catholics, who are merely
besmirching the Churches fair name. Is
this true? Are these criminals men
and women who were merely baptized but not brought up in the Church and its
school system, and who lay claim to a religion to obtain preferential treatment
from Catholic wardens and guards?
My
survey does not show the percentage of prisoners who had attended parochial
schools. Crime and Religion pointed out twenty years ago that forty-seven per cent
of all Catholic prisoners had been in parochial schools.
With the tremendous growth of the parochial system, it can be assumed
that the percentage has remained constant, if it has not increased.
The Roman Catholic press now contends that at least half of all Catholic
children attend parochial schools.
But
not all-Catholic "criminals" are or have been in jail.
American gangsterism during Prohibition days was largely a Roman Catholic
monopoly. From those days into our
own time emerged the Mafia, totally Roman Catholic in fact and in origin,
shaking the very foundations of
The
American hierarchy is vocal enough sanctimoniously so
At annual meetings the cardinals, archbishops and bishops always piously
and noisily fulminate against something-sinful motion pictures, materialistic
public schools or the trend toward mental conformity, but on the lawlessness and
criminality of the Mafia, the silence is deafening.
The
lists of the names of members of juvenile gangs harassing our large cities in
recent years read like a junior Mafia. The
"pachucos" of the Southwest with their molls, their chain beatings and
their forced tattooing of innocent Mexican boys and girls were almost all
Catholics.
Perhaps
it is only a coincidence that the great American cities that have been exposed
as saturated with graft, immorality and corruption have invariably been the same
ones that were the subject of boasts in unguarded moments and at Communion
Breakfasts as Catholic cities, with Catholic civil servants high in their
municipal functions.
Tammany
Hall with its tolerated robbery of
I
can distinctly recall that while still a priest I hired an Irish-American nurse
from
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