The Journal of Prison Discipline and Philanthropy (New Series, No. 40, January 1901)
When we consider that the obligations of benevolence, which are founded on the precept and examples of the Author of Christianity, are not cancelled by the follies or crimes of our fellow-creatures, and when we reflect upon the miseries, which penury, hunger, cold, unnecessary severity, unwholesome apartments, and guilt (the usual attendants of prisons) involve with them, it becomes us to extend our compassion to that part of mankind who are the subjects of those miseries. By the aid of humanity their undue and illegal sufferings may be prevented; the link which should bind the whole family of mankind together, under all circumstances, be preserved unbroken; and such degree and modes of punishment may be discovered and suggested as may, instead of continuing habits of vice, become the means of restoring our fellow-creatures to virtue and happiness. From a conviction of the truth and obligations of these principles, the subscribers have associated themselves under the title of “The Pennsylvania Prison Society.”
For effecting these purposes they have adopted the following Constitution:
The officers of the Society shall consist of a President, two Vice-Presidents, two Secretaries, a Treasurer, who may be an undoubted first-class Trust and Safe Deposit Company, regularly chartered by the State or national authorities; two Counsellors, and an Acting Committee; all of whom shall first be nominated as suitable by the “Committee on Membership in the Acting Committee,” a standing committee of that body. They shall be chosen by ballot at the annual meeting of the Society to be held on the fourth Thursday in the First month (January) of each year, and shall continue in office until their successors are elected.
No person shall be placed in nomination for officers of the Society, or as a member of the Acting Committee who shall not have been previously appointed by a standing committee of the Acting Committee called “The Committee on Membership in the Acting Committee.” A majority of the whole number of votes cast shall be required to elect any nominee.
Pennsylvania Prison Society
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CONSTITUTION OF THE PENNSYLVANIA PRISON SOCIETY.
ARTICLE I.
ARTICLE II.
ARTICLE III.
ARTICLE IV.
OFFICERS OF THE SOCIETY FOR 1901.
COMMITTEES OF THE SOCIETY FOR 1901.
STANDING COMMITTEES.
TABLE OF CONTENTS.
JOURNAL OF PRISON DISCIPLINE
TWELFTH ANNUAL REPORT OF JOHN J. LYTLE, GENERAL SECRETARY.
CORRESPONDENCE.
WORK OF THE SOCIETY AND ITS ACTING COMMITTEE.
THE EASTERN STATE PENITENTIARY.
SOME CASES OF INTEREST WHICH HAVE COME TO OUR NOTICE.
THE OFFICERS.
PHILADELPHIA COUNTY PRISON AND ANNEX.
CHESTER COUNTY PRISON.
DELAWARE COUNTY PRISON.
OTHER COUNTY PRISONS.
POLICE MATRONS.
In Memoriam.
GATHERED FROM REPORTS AND OTHER SOURCES.
STATE PRISON DILEMMA.
HOW TO DEAL WITH WICKED MEN.
WHERE DEATH PENALTY IS NEEDED.
THE LOCK-STEP.
GRADING AND CLASSIFYING OF PRISONERS.
RECLAIMED CRIMINALS BY PAROLE LAWS.
PROPOSED MARRIAGE REFORM.
CONTRACT, PRICE-PIECE, STATE ACCOUNT.
CONVICT LABOR ON STATE FARMS.
ROAD MAKING FOR CONVICTS.
INDUSTRIAL REFORMATORIES.
MASSACHUSETTS STATE REFORMATORY, CONCORD.
ILLINOIS REFORMATORY, PONTIAC.
THE JUVENILE COURT OF CHICAGO.
SLOYD WORK.
NOVEL PUNISHMENT.
THE WHIPPING-POST.
THE BERTILLON SYSTEM.
RESULTS OF TREATMENT OF THE INSANE.
HAVANA PRISONS, CUBA.
AUSTRALIAN PRISON REFORM.
PRISONS IN OLD PARIS.
MODEL FRENCH PRISON.
SIBERIAN BANISHMENT.
NORWAY PRISON.
THE NATIONAL PRISON CONGRESS.
GOV. GEORGE K. NASH, ADDRESS OF WELCOME.
HON. FREDERICK HOWARD WINES, LL.D.,
ADDRESS.
GRADES OF PRISONS.
EDUCATION.
PRISON LABOR
BERTILLON SYSTEM OF IDENTIFICATION.
SUNDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 23d.
Monday, 9 A. M., September 24th.
PRESIDENT’S ANNUAL ADDRESS, ALBERT GARVIN,
ADDRESS BY H. F. HATCH, IONA, MICH.
JOSEPH F. SCOTT, WARDEN MASSACHUSETTS STATE REFORMATORY,
MONDAY AFTERNOON.
ADDRESS. REV. WM. J. BATT, CHAPLAIN, CONCORD, MASS.
CHAPLAIN WM. A. LOCKE, MANSFIELD, OHIO, READ A PAPER ON
PRACTICAL PRISON REFORM.
MONDAY, EVENING, SEPTEMBER 24TH.
ADDRESS—HON. C. V. COLLINS, SUPT. N. Y. STATE PRISONS.
ADDRESS.
SCIENTIFIC CRIMINAL STUDY.
TUESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 24TH.
REPORT ON “PREVENTATIVE AND REFORMATORY WORK,” GEORGE TORRANCE, PONTIAC, ILL., SUPERINTENDENT STATE REFORMATORY.
FOUNDED ON FACTS.
THE PAROLE LAWS.
H. E. ALLISON, M. D., STATE HOSPITAL FOR CRIMINAL INSANE, MATTAWAN, N. Y., FISHKILL-ON-HUDSON,
T. J. CHARLTON, SUPT. REFORMATORY SCHOOL FOR BOYS, PLAINFIELD, INDIANA,
CAPTAIN C. S. TREMBY, U. S. N.,
MRS. FRANCES A. MORTON, SUPT. REFORMATORY FOR WOMEN, SOUTH FARMINGTON, MASS.,
ADDRESS.
NEXT CONGRESS MEETING PLACE.
ENTERTAINMENT OF THE CONGRESS.
TUESDAY EVENING.
JOSÉ F. GODOY, FIRST SECRETARY OF THE MEXICAN EMBASSY, WASHINGTON, D. C.,
ADDRESS, HON. EUGENE SMITH, NEW YORK CITY.
SOME STARTLING FIGURES.
THE AVERAGE STEAL.
JOSEPH F. SCOTT, SUPERINTENDENT MASSACHUSETTS REFORMATORY,
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26TH, A. M.—CHAPLAINS’ MEETING.
J. WARREN MEADE, WARDEN AUBURN STATE PRISON, N. Y.,
MEMORIAL TRIBUTE
C. P. HOYT, WARDEN, BUENA, COLORADO,
J. WARREN BAILY, MASSACHUSETTS,
OREN C. PAINTER, OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND,
AMOS W. BUTLER, IND., SEC’TY BOARD STATE CHARITIES,
CONNECTICUT REQUIRES
WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, CLOSING SESSION.
COMPLIMENTARY RESOLUTIONS TO
TREASURER’S REPORT.
DONATIONS RECEIVED
FORM OF DEVISE OF REAL ESTATE.
ARTICLE V.
ARTICLE VI.
ARTICLE VII.
ARTICLE VIII.
ARTICLE IX.
OF VISITORS.
AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE Philadelphia Society for Alleviating the Miseries of Public Prisons.
LEGAL CHANGE OF NAME.
