When he left the prison he had about $100. The prisoners took up a collection and gave him $30; the State turned over $20 and Taborn had about $50 himself. He was placed upon an electric car for a trip to Delaware, O., from which town he was sentenced for killing a man during a quarrel. Then he will go to his old home in Cass County, Michigan, and later to Hillsboro, N. C., where employment awaits him.
Social Surveys of Delinquency and Vice.—The Russell Sage Foundation Library publishes the following useful summary:
Chicago. Vice commission. Social evil in Chicago; a study of existing conditions, with recommendations. 399 p. Chicago, the Commission, 1911. (50 cents)
This report may be obtained through the American vigilance association, 156 Fifth Ave., N. Y.
Cincinnati (Ohio). Bureau of municipal research. (The) Juvenile court of Hamilton county. Cincinnati, O. The Bureau, 1912. (2 cents).
Elmira (N. Y ). Women’s league for good government. Vice conditions in Elmira. 76 p. Elmira. The League, 1913.
Hartford (Conn.) Vice commission. Report, July, 1913. 90 p. Hartford, Conn. Woman suffrage association, 1913. (25 cents)
Kneeland, G. J. Commercialized prostitution in New York City. 334 p. N. Y. Century Co., 1913. ($1.30 net)
Minneapolis. Vice commission. Report. 134 p. Minneapolis, Byron and Hillard, 1911. (40 cents)
New York (City). Committee of fourteen for the suppression of the Raines law hotels. Social evil in New York City; a study of law enforcement by the Research committee. 268 p. N. Y. Kellogg, 1910. (Out of print)
Philadelphia. Vice commission. Report. Philadelphia, The Commission. (40 cents)
This report may be obtained through the American vigilance association, 156 Fifth Ave., N. Y.
Portland (Oregon). Vice commission. Report, January, 1912. 216 p. Portland, The Commission, 1912. (Out of print)
Potter, Z. I. Delinquency, in Russell Sage Foundation, Department of surveys and exhibits. (The) Newburgh survey, 1913. Also in Russell Sage Foundation. Department of surveys and exhibits. (The) Topeka improvement survey, 1914. (in preparation)
Seligman, E. R. A., ed. Social evil, with special references to conditions existing in the City of New York: a report prepared in 1902 under the direction of the Committee of fifteen. 303 p. N. Y. Putnam, 1912, c 1902-12. ($1.75 net)
Syracuse (N. Y.). Moral survey committee. Report on the social evil. Syracuse, N. Y. Moral survey committee, 1913. (40 cents)
The State Use Problem in New Jersey.—The Newark News has a plain and clear statement of the difficulty. New Jersey is finding in going over from the contract system to the State use plan.
The State Economy and Efficiency Commission is to-day investigating State prison conditions. The problems before it should concern every tax-payer, not to mention those who are interested in the great problem of prison reform. The need for their investigation was indicated yesterday by the report of the prison inspectors.
The prison of this State is operated under the law of 1814 as it has been amended from time to time. Its operation is based upon an obsolete idea of prisons and their purpose: the idea that prisons are places of confinement under the control of a keeper whose business is, as his title implies, to keep the prisoners.
To secure revenue for the State, and incidentally, to preserve the mental and bodily health of the prisoners, provision was made for hiring out their labor and for this purpose a supervisor was appointed. The State wards then fell under the jurisdiction of the keeper and supervisor, whose duties were regulated by statutes requiring interpretation by the courts.
Then a Board of Inspectors was appointed to see to it that the keeper kept the prisoners and that the supervisor kept the contracts for their labor; but the board has neither authority nor responsibility. Finally, a Labor Commission was appointed to devise a scheme for carrying out the State-use system of keeping the prisoners busy; an undertaking that it has proved unable, so far, to carry out.