The Pennsylvania Journal of Prison Discipline and Philanthropy (Vol. IV, No. II, April 1849)

by Philadelphia Society for Alleviating the Miseries of Public Prisons

TERMS:—ONE DOLLAR A YEAR IN ADVANCE.
THE
PENNSYLVANIA JOURNAL
OF
PRISON DISCIPLINE
AND
PHILANTHROPY.
PUBLISHED QUARTERLY
UNDER THE DIRECTION OF “THE PHILADELPHIA SOCIETY FOR ALLEVIATING
THE MISERIES OF PUBLIC PRISONS,” INSTITUTED 1787.
VOL. IV.—NO. II.
APRIL 1849.
PHILADELPHIA:
E. C. AND J. BIDDLE,
SOUTHWEST CORNER OF FIFTH AND MINOR STREETS.

CONTENTS OF NO. II.

Art. I.—	[Houses of Refuge,]	49
II.—	[Mortality and Crime,]	63
III.—	[State Penitentiaries,]	70
[NOTICES.]
No. 1.—	[Institutions for the Insane,]	79
2.—	[The precise present character of transportation explained, with suggestions by Ignotus,]	86
3.—	[Statistics of Truantry and of Juvenile Vagrancy in the City of Boston,]	88
4.—	[The London Christian Observer’s notice of Rev. Mr. Field’s work on the Advantages of the Separate System of Imprisonment,]	92
5.—	[Kentucky State Penitentiary,]	93
6.—	[An Inquiry into the Alleged Tendency of the Separation of Convicts, one from the other, to Produce Disease and Derangement,]	94
7.—	[New York Eye and Ear Infirmary,]	95
8.—	[Shelter for Colored Orphans,]	95
9.—	[Paupers and Prisoners in Cincinnati,]	95
10.—	[Insane Asylum in North Carolina,]	95
11.—	[Corrupt Police,]	96

CONSTITUTION
OF THE
“Philadelphia Society for Alleviating the Miseries of Public Prisons.”

When we consider that the obligations of benevolence, which are founded on the precepts 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 links which should bind the whole family of mankind together, under all circumstances, be preserved unbroken; and such degrees 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 obligation of these principles, the subscribers have associated themselves under the title of “The Philadelphia Society for Alleviating the Miseries of Public Prisons.”

For effecting these purposes, they have adopted the following Constitution.

Article I.—The officers of the Society shall consist of a President, two Vice-Presidents, two Secretaries, a Treasurer, two Counsellors, and an Acting Committee, all of whom, except the Acting Committee, shall be chosen annually, by ballot, on the second Second-day, called Monday, in the month called January.

[(See 3d page of Cover.)]

FRONT VIEW.

J. M^C ARTHUR JUN^R ARCH^T.

PLAN

APRIL, 1849.
VOL IV.—NO. II.