If 82 per cent. of our offenders were reformed our prisons would be certainly a good investment, but it is only fair to remember that not all convicted youths between 16 and 23, and no adults of any sort, are brought under this treatment. Delicate or defective physique of any sort makes it impossible. How to make a cripple or a boy with a weak heart into a self-supporting man within the limits of the short sentence such unfortunates usually receive, is very hard to see. It is too short a time to learn a trade and even the English authorities are ridiculously hampered by laws preventing convict labor excepting upon articles for State use, so that what is learned at prison is of little value out of it....
Daniel Buckley.
SUMMARY OF THE EIGHTY-SECOND ANNUAL REPORT OF THE INSPECTORS OF THE EASTERN PENITENTIARY, PHILADELPHIA, PA.
This report, contained in a pamphlet of about eighty pages, with nine plates, is printed and bound within the prison.
On the first of January, 1911, the population was thus classified:—
| White Males, 1,073; White Females, 18; Total White | 1,091 |
| Colored Males, 301; Colored Females, 15; Total Colored | 316 |
| Received during the year: | |
| White Males, 287; White Females, 9; Total White received | 296 |
| Colored Males, 100; Colored Females, 5; Total Colored received | 105 |
| Remaining at the close of the year | 1,350 |
| Decrease from close of the preceding year | 57 |
The discharges were:
| By Commutation | 300 |
| By Order of Court | 18 |
| By Parole | 105 |
| By Pardon | 14 |
| By Order Managers Huntingdon Reformatory | 6 |
| By Death | 14 |
| By Expiration of Sentence | 1 |
The inspectors report the completion of a new building containing 120 cells, for which the last Legislature appropriated $60,000.00. The actual cost was $52,698.11, and the balance of the appropriation has been turned over to the Treasury of the State. “In the erection of the building, no other than the labor of the prisoners was employed.” They also state that the results of the application of the Parole Law have been very satisfactory.