The Journal of Prison Discipline and Philanthropy, March 1912 / New Series No. 51
No person who is not an official visitor of the prison, or who has not a written permission, according to such rules as the Inspectors may adopt as aforesaid, shall be allowed to visit the same; the official visitors are: the Governor, the Speaker and members of the Senate; the Speaker and members of the House of Representatives; the Secretary of the Commonwealth; the Judges of the Supreme Court; the Attorney-General and his Deputies; the President and Associate Judges of all the courts in the State; the Mayor and Recorders of the cities of Philadelphia, Lancaster, and Pittsburg; Commissioners and Sheriffs of the several Counties; and the “Acting Committee of the Philadelphia Society for Alleviating the Miseries of Public Prisons.” (Note: Now named “The Pennsylvania Prison Society.”)— Section 7, Act of April 23, 1829.
The above was supplemented by the following Act, approved March 20, 1903:
To make active or visiting committees of societies incorporated for the purpose of visiting and instructing prisoners Official Visitors of penal and reformatory institutions.
Section 1. Be it enacted, etc., That the active or visiting committee of any society heretofore incorporated and now existing in the Commonwealth for the purpose of visiting and instructing prisoners, or persons confined in any penal or reformatory institution, and alleviating their miseries, shall be and are hereby made official visitors of any jail, penitentiary, or other penal or reformatory institution in this Commonwealth, maintained at the public expense, with the same powers, privileges, and functions as are vested in the official visitors of prisons and penitentiaries, as now prescribed by law: Provided, That no active or visiting committee of any such society shall be entitled to visit such jails or penal institutions, under this act, unless notice of the names of the members of such committee, and the terms of their appointment, is given by such society, in writing, under its corporate seal, to the warden, superintendent or other officer in charge of such jail, or other officer in charge of any such jail or other penal institution.
Pennsylvania Prison Society
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OFFICIAL VISITORS.
AN ACT.
SPECIAL NOTICES.
FORM OF BEQUEST OF PERSONAL PROPERTY.
FORM OF DEVISE OF REAL ESTATE.
OFFICERS OF THE SOCIETY FOR 1912
President
Vice-Presidents
Secretary
Assistant Secretary
Treasurer
Honorary Counselor
Counselors
General Agent
Acting Committee.
From the State-at-large.
COMMITTEES FOR 1912
Committee to Visit the Eastern Penitentiary
Committee to Visit the Philadelphia County Prison
For the Holmesburg Prison
House of Correction
Chester and Delaware County Prisons
Bucks County Prison
Montgomery County Prison
Lancaster County Prison
Western Penitentiary and Allegheny County Prison
Committee on Discharged Prisoners
Committee on Legislation
Committee on Membership
Committee on Police Matrons
Committee on Prison Sunday
Editorial Committee
Finance Committee
Auditors
ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-FIFTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE PENNSYLVANIA PRISON SOCIETY.
REPORT OF THE ACTING COMMITTEE FOR THE YEAR 1911.
PROBATION, PAROLE, INDETERMINATE SENTENCE.
THE EASTERN PENITENTIARY.
RELIEF FOR PRISONERS WHEN DISCHARGED.
WESTERN PENITENTIARY.
PHILADELPHIA COUNTY PRISONS.
GENERAL AGENT.
COUNTY PRISONS (OUTSIDE OF PHILADELPHIA.)
AMERICAN PRISON CONGRESS.
ASSISTANT SECRETARY.
OBITUARIES.
THE SCOPE OF OUR WORK.
DEATH OF ROBERT B. ADAMS.
Payments, 1911.
Statement of Barton Fund.
Payments.
Home of Industry Fund.
GENERAL AGENT’S REPORT 1911.
COMMITMENTS TO MOYAMENSING, PHILADELPHIA COUNTY PRISON.
ENFORCE IDLENESS OF PRISONERS
UNWISE AND VICIOUS.
THE PHILADELPHIA COUNTY PRISON AT HOLMESBURG.
SUMMARY OF THE EIGHTY-SECOND ANNUAL REPORT OF THE INSPECTORS OF THE EASTERN PENITENTIARY, PHILADELPHIA, PA.
Statistics of the 401 Received in 1911.
Accounts with Convicts for 1911.
WESTERN PENITENTIARY.
REPORTS OF COUNTY JAILS IN PENNSYLVANIA.
Luzerne County—Wilkes-Barre.
Cambria County—Ebensburg.
Lehigh County—Allentown.
Dauphin County—Harrisburg.
Montgomery County—Norristown.
Delaware County—Media.
Montour County—Danville.
PRISONERS’ AID SOCIETIES.
MASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR AIDING DISCHARGED CONVICTS.
MAINE PRISON ASSOCIATION.
PRISONERS’ AID ASSOCIATION, RHODE ISLAND.
PRISON ASSOCIATION OF NEW YORK.
THE WOMEN’S PRISON ASSOCIATION OF NEW YORK CITY.
CONNECTICUT PRISON ASSOCIATION.
PRISON LEAGUE OF AMERICA.
PRISON GATE MISSION, SALVATION ARMY, NEW YORK CITY.
SOCIETY FOR THE FRIENDLESS.
NEBRASKA PRISON ASSOCIATION.
PRISON REFORM ASSOCIATION OF LOUISIANA.
PRISON ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA.
PRISONERS’ AID ASSOCIATION OF MARYLAND.
THE CENTRAL HOWARD ASSOCIATION; CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.
COLORADO PRISON ASSOCIATION.
HOME OF INDUSTRY, PHILADELPHIA.
DOOR OF BLESSING, PHILADELPHIA.
AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR VISITING CATHOLIC PRISONERS.
PAROLE IN CALIFORNIA
RELIEF GIVEN PRISONERS WHEN DISCHARGED FROM STATE PRISONS.
HONORARY MEMBERS.
AN ACT.
AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE
LEGAL CHANGE OF NAME
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