Note 46 — Chapter VIII · CORRECTIONS

Parole and probation are so similar in purpose that no distinction will be made here between the two functions. Women figure as parole officers in women’s and children’s institutions just as they figure as probation officers in the courts. The Los Angeles district of the California Federation of Women’s Clubs has established a Psychopathic Parole Society for the “prevention of insanity and to secure homes for unfortunate women confined in Patton, many of whom were fit to be discharged and others rightly and justly able to be paroled if right homes could be found.”