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Afi Association in Convention Seeks Penal Reform
The Twenty sixth Annual Meeting of the Pennsylvania Bar Association at Bedford Springs discussed reforms. Proposals urged abolishing the county jail, replacing it with state farms, expanded state prisons, and self support for inmates labor. Civil law debated jury trials in civil actions and corporate indebtedness mortgage powers. Uniform state laws and legal biography noted notable losses among Pennsylvania's legal community.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pennsylvania Bar Association
Bedford Springs
Ie. Committee On Criminal Law
Edwin M. Abdott
Ternoon
Avery
Sinennsylvania
Committee On Civil Law
John, D. Dorris
Huntingdon
Committee On
William M. Hargeat
Hartisburg
National Conference of Commissioners On Uniform Laws
National Bar Association
United States
Pennsylvania
Committee On Legal Biography