Aid and Employment of Discharged Prisoners.
ISAAC SLACK,
Rev. HERMAN L. DUHRING,
Rev. JOSEPH WELCH,
WILLIAM KOELLE,
CHARLES F. CRIPPS, F. J. POOLEY,
Mrs. P. W. LAWRENCE,
Mrs. HORACE FASSETT,
Rev. WM. S. NEILL,
MISS C. V. HODGES.
Police Matrons at Station Houses.
Dr. EMILY J. INGRAM, MARY S. WHELEN, Mrs. P. W. LAWRENCE.
Editorial, of the Journal.
Rev. R. HEBER BARNES,
JOHN J. LYTLE,
CHARLES M. MORTON,
Rev. H. CRESSON McHENRY, Rev.GEO. A. LATIMER.
Auditing Committee.
Rev. R. HEBER BARNES, LINDLEY H. BEDELL, GEORGE W. HALL.
TABLE OF CONTENTS.
| PAGE |
| [Twentieth Century View of the Public Mind] | 7 |
| [Reformation of Prisoners; Change of Sentiment] | 7 |
| [The Eastern State Penitentiary] | 8 |
| [Parole and Indeterminate Sentence] | 8 |
| [Acting Committee Work; Official Visitors] | 9 |
| [Prison Agent; Care of Discharged Prisoners] | 9 |
| [Philadelphia County Prison, Moyamensing] | 10 |
| [“““ Woman’s Ward and Work] | 11 |
| [“““ Annex, Holmesburg Junction] | 11 |
| [House of Correction, Holmesburg Junction] | 12 |
| [Juvenile Offenders, and this City’s Cost of Crime] | 13 |
| [Police Matrons; Needs of a Woman’s Reformatory] | 14 |
| [REPORT OF GENERAL SECRETARY.] |
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| [General Work and Observation] | 15 |
| [Correspondence and Work of the Acting Committee] | 16 |
| [The Eastern State Penitentiary, Relief of the Discharged] | 17 |
| [Silent Teachers; Cases of Interest] | 18 |
| [The Officers] | 20 |
| [Philadelphia County Prison and Annex] | 20 |
| [Some Cases of Interest] | 21 |
| [Chester County Prison, Delaware County Prison, and others] | 22 |
| [Statistics of Visitations to Prisoners] | 22 |
| [Police Matrons] | 23 |
| [In Memoriam, Henry M. Laing, late Treasurer] | 24 |
| [GATHERED FROM REPORTS AND OTHER SOURCES.] |
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| [Change of Treatment Urged—State N. Y.] | 25 |
| [State Prison Dilemma] | 27 |
| [How to Deal With Wicked Men] | 27 |
| [Where Death Penalty is Needed] | 28 |
| [The Lock-Step] | 28 |
| [Grading and Classifying of Prisoners] | 29 |
| [Reclaimed Criminals by Parole Laws] | 29 |
| [Proposed Marriage Reform] | 30 |
| [Contract; Price-Piece; State Account] | 31 |
| [Convict Labor on State Farms] | 31 |
| [Road Making for Convicts] | 31 |
| [Industrial Reformatories] | 32 |
| [Massachusetts State Reformatory, Concord] | 32 |
| [Illinois State Reformatory, Pontiac] | 33 |
| [The Juvenile Court of Chicago] | 33 |
| [Sloyd Work; Novel Punishment] | 34 |
| [The Whipping-Post] | 34 |
| [The Bertillon System] | 35 |
| [Results of Treatment of the Insane] | 36 |
| [Havana Prisons, Cuba] | 37 |
| [Australian Prison Reform] | 38 |
| [Prisons in Old Paris] | 38 |
| [Model French Prison] | 39 |
| [Siberian Banishment] | 39 |
| [Norway Prison] | 40 |
| [REPORT OF THE NATIONAL PRISON CONGRESS.] |
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| [Address of Welcome, Governor George K. Nash] | 41 |
| [M. W. Beacom, Welcome from Mayor, John H. Farley] | 42 |
| [Response by Hon. Frederick H. Wines, LL.D.] | 42 |
| [Address, Captain Edward S. Wright, President of the Congress] | 43 |
| [Annual Sermon, Rev. Ward Beecher Pickard, D.D.] | 44 |
| [Annual Address, Albert Garvin, President of the Association] | 45 |
| [Joseph F, Scott, “Civil Service in Prison”] | 46 |
| [Address, Chaplain Wm. J. Batt, Concord, Mass.] | 47 |
| [Address, Chaplain Wm. A. Locke, “Prison Methods”] | 47 |
| [Address, Chaplain D. R. Imbrie, “Decade of Prison Reform”] | 48 |
| [Hon. F. H. Wines on Dr. McKim’s Book] | 48 |
| [Chaplain J. F. Orwick on Prison Sunday] | 49 |
| [Oren C. Painter on Prisoners’ Aid Association, Baltimore] | 49 |
| [Address, Hon. Samuel J. Barrows, “International Congress”] | 49 |
| [Address, Hon. C. V. Collins, N. Y., “Education Among Criminals”] | 51 |
| [Address, Prof. Chas. R. Henderson, “Sociological Side of Reform”] | 52 |
| [Judge Martin Dewey Follett, “Criminal Law Reform”] | 53 |
| [George Torrance, “Preventative and Reformatory Work”] | 53 |
| [Dr. H. E. Allison, N. Y., “Preventative Heredity of Crime”] | 55 |
| [Captain C. S. Tremby, U. S. N., “Discipline in the Spanish War”] | 55 |
| [Mrs. F. A. Morton, Mass., “Elementary Practice in Education”] | 55 |
| [Address, Rev. August Drahms (Cal.), “Crime in Civilized Countries”] | 56 |
| [Hon. F. H. Wines, LL.D., Washington, D.C., “The U.S. Census”] | 56 |
| [Place of Next Congress Meeting and Entertainment] | 56 |
| [Address, José F. Godoy, Sec’y Mexican Embassy, Washington, D.C.] | 57 |
| [Address, Hon. Eugene Smith, N. Y. City, “The Cost of Crime”] | 57 |
| [Joseph F. Scott, Mass., “The Indeterminate Sentence”] | 59 |
| [Testimonial to Z. R. Brockway, late of Elmira Reformatory] | 59 |
| [Address, J. Warren Meade, Auburn, N. Y., “Prison Discipline”] | 59 |
| [Memorial Tribute to Three Departed Members] | 60 |
| [Wm. Chamberlain, Mich., “Discipline in State Penitentiary”] | 60 |
| [J. Warren Baily, Mass., “Discharged Prisoners”] | 60 |
| [Amos W. Butler, Indiana “State Parole”] | 61 |
| [Prof. R. G. Henderson, Chicago, “Psychological Laboratory”] | 61 |
| [Mrs. D. C. Leeds, Phila., “Woman’s Prison or Reformatory”] | 62 |
| [Complimentary Resolutions; Closing Remarks] | 62 |