Herbert Hoover actually said...

"The overcrowding of the prisons themselves is inhumane and accentuates criminal tendencies."

"There should be a transfer of the functions of detection and prosecution of prohibition cases from the Treasury Department to the Department of Justice, and thus an ending of divided responsibility an..."

"The District of Columbia is without an adequate prohibition enforcement law."

"There must be extension of federal prisons with more adequate parole system and other modern treatment of prisoners."