CONTENTS OF NO. II.

Art.

[—Moral and Religious Instruction of Convicts,]
[—Report of the Discipline and Management of the Convict-Prisons, and Disposal of Convicts, (England,)]
[—Sources and Checks of Juvenile Delinquency,]
[—Pennsylvania Penitentiaries,]
[—Should Convicts be Received into the State Lunatic Hospital at Harrisburg?]
[—Report of the Condition of the New Jersey State Prison,]
[—An Extraordinary Document,]
[—A Philanthropic Perplexity,]

MISCELLANEOUS NOTICES.

[Vagrant Children of New York,]
[Street Begging in New York,]
[New York Prison Association,]
[New York State Prisons,]
[Be beforehand with the Tempter,]
[New Penitentiary in Massachusetts,]
[State Prison at Charlestown (Mass.,)]
[Illinois Penitentiary,]
[New State Reform School,]
[Juvenile Offenders,]
[Singular Avocation and Mode of Life in London,]
[Death from Separation,]
[Murders in Philadelphia,]
[Missouri Insane Asylum,]
[Missouri Penitentiary,]
[Items of general Information,]
[Acknowledgments,]
[Premium for an Essay on Juvenile Delinquency,]

NOTICE OF THIS JOURNAL.

“It embodies more information on the subject of prisons, arranged and expressed in the spirit of literature and science, than any other publication of our country and will compare with any Journal devoted to this department of knowledge in Europe.”—Hon. Charles Sumner’s Speech, in debate on prison question in Boston, May, 1847.

RECENT NOTICES.

From the North American and United States’ Gazette.

We have received from Messrs. E. C. & J. Biddle the last number of the Pennsylvania Journal of Prison Discipline, which is published quarterly, under the direction of the Philadelphia Society for alleviating the Miseries of Public Prisons. A glance through its pages shows what is well understood—that it is a

([See 3d page of Cover.])

THE
PENNSYLVANIA JOURNAL
of
PRISON DISCIPLINE.

Vol. VIII.—APRIL, 1853—No. 2.