Historical review of Chicago and Cook county and selected ..edand author of Historical review . o endeavor to send them to the penitentiary, or return them to so-ciety, as human beings with softened natures and good ambitions—this was an unheard of revelation in moral reform and municipal lifeuntil the coming of John L. Whitman as keeper of the Cook countyjail. In him the old ideas of the grim, unresponsive, cold hearted andcold blooded jailer are revolutionized; for, although he has alwaysbeen a strict disciplinarian, he has from the first treated his chargesas men and wo
Historical review of Chicago and Cook county and selected ..edand author of Historical review . o endeavor to send them to the penitentiary, or return them to so-ciety, as human beings with softened natures and good ambitions—this was an unheard of revelation in moral reform and municipal lifeuntil the coming of John L. Whitman as keeper of the Cook countyjail. In him the old ideas of the grim, unresponsive, cold hearted andcold blooded jailer are revolutionized; for, although he has alwaysbeen a strict disciplinarian, he has from the first treated his chargesas men and women never beyond the pale of g^ood influences, andthere is no one in Chicago who has so won the unshaken confidenceand affection of the so-called criminal classes as John L. splendid wife also shares with him the honor of making the JohnL. Whitman Moral Improvement Association of the Cook countyjail a unique and far-reaching influence for good, and whose pur-poses are destined to be put in operation by similar organizations else-where. Mr. Whitman is an Illinois man, his birthplace being Sterling,.
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