A DIGEST OF EVENTS IN THE PRISON FIELD

To all who are Interested Prisoners’ Aid Work and the Prison Field:

Last October, at the meeting of the American Prison Association, representatives of a number of the leading prisoners’ aid societies of the United States voted to organize a National Prisoners’ Aid Association, to promote closer co-operation between the prisoners’ aid societies of this country.

These societies have decided to publish a monthly “Review” of events in the prison field. The first number of the REVIEW appeared about the middle of January. It contained an article by Warren F. Spaulding (Massachusetts) on the International Prison Congress, brief histories of three prisoners’ aid societies, a list of prisoners’ aid societies, several pages of “Events in Brief” containing up-to-date facts in the prison field from all parts of the country, and an advertisement.

The REVIEW will be published once a month, in New York. It is an experiment. Everybody working for it, writers and editors, are giving their services gratuitously.

The REVIEW is an experiment, not a money-maker. The important question is—can it pay for itself? Yes, if five hundred persons, interested in the prison world, will subscribe for the REVIEW at seventy-five cents, or become members of the National Prisoners’ Aid Association, at one dollar, which will include the REVIEW.

Therefore, SUBSCRIBE NOW. This REVIEW is specially for prisoners’ aid workers, prison officials, boards of managers, state boards, probation officers, parole officers, members of the American Prison Association and of the National Conference of Charities and Correction, and all others interested in the treatment of the delinquent.

The officers of the Association are: E. F. Waite, President; F. Emory Lyon, Vice President; O. F. Lewis, Secretary. Executive Committee: E. A. Fredenhagen, Charles Parsons, G. E. Cornwall, A. H. Votaw, Albert Steelman, and the officers ex-officio.

Mr. O. F. Lewis, Sec’y, Date.............................

National Prisoners’ Aid Association,

135 East 15th Street, New York.

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