FOUR MONTHS OF THE REVIEW
The Review is growing gently. We hope surely, also. Its purpose to be a live news-sheet in the prison field is being gradually worked out. What the Review wants is comment from its subscribers as to how it can be made most useful.
The editor holds that the “prison field” includes efforts in behalf of the prisoner before imprisonment, after imprisonment, on probation and on parole. Very germane to the work and interest of prisoners and societies are movements for the care of those mentally and socially sick and tending toward delinquency and crime, such as the tramp and the vagrant, the inebriate, the feeble-minded offender, the youthful transgressor. So the Review will give a share of its attention to such actual or proposed organizations or institutions as children’s courts and villages, farm colonies, hospitals and colonies for inebriates, psychopathic institutions for the study of the defective delinquent, as well as to all the movements and progress of general interest in the narrower prison field.
During these four months W. D. Lane, a member of the New York School of Philanthropy, has been serving the Review as Assistant Editor. His help has been of very material value.