MOVEMENT FOR NEW JERSEY WOMEN’S REFORMATORY
The Woman’s Reformatory Commission of New Jersey has decided to ask the legislature to appropriate $200,000 to carry out the provisions of a law enacted in 1910 by which such a reformatory is established and its organization and administration provided for. This appropriation will be sufficient to secure a site and to erect the necessary buildings, consisting of six cottages to accommodate from twenty-five to thirty each, their estimated cost with equipment being $25,000 each. The site is to be in the country, approximately two hundred acres, which with necessary administrative and other buildings will cost $30,000. For sewage disposal $15,000 will be needed, and $5,000 will be necessary for preliminary expenses.
A census of women who were serving sentences in penal and reformatory institutions in New Jersey on the first of November last, including girls over sixteen years of age at the state home for girls at Trenton, numbered 336; the number between sixteen and thirty years of age was 210.
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A definite move has been made in Michigan legislature looking to the treatment of habitual drunkenness on farms provided by the state. A bill directing the governor to appoint a commission of five to investigate the subject of farm colonies for inebriates and other minor offenders who at present are confined in jails has been introduced by Senator George G. Scott of Detroit. The commission is authorized to extend its investigations to methods in force in foreign countries as well as this. The report will be made to the next legislators.