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[THE “DOPE HABIT”]1
[A COURSE FOR PRUSSIAN PRISON OFFICIALS AND OTHERS]6
[IMPORTANCE OF AN UP-TO-DATE MEDICAL DEPARTMENT IN A PENAL INSTITUTION.]7
[A SCENE FROM “THE MAN INSIDE.”]10
[Act II, Scene 16.]10
[EVENTS IN BRIEF.]14
[Legislation in Maryland.]14
[The Lash in Delaware.]14
[Why Prisoners’ Families Aren’t Supported by Prisoners’ Earnings.]14
[Parole In Kentucky.]15
[The Kansas State Prison Makes Money.]15
[State Use in Ohio.]16
[The Governors on Road Work by Prisoners.]16
[Transportation Again?]16
[Ohio Penitentiary Breaks Silence.]17
[A Good Idea.]17
[Prison Publicity.]17
[State Use in New York.]18
[Probable Abolition of Contract Labor at Chicago Bridewell.]18
[Vermont’s State Prison Warden Resigns.]19
[Prisoners’ Wages Reduced in Ohio.]19
[Parole Law Recommended For Rhode Island.]19
[Convicts Build Arizona Bridge.]20
[In Iowa.]20
[Auburn Inmates Celebrate Under Their Own Captains.]20
[Tynan’s Way.]20
[Tramps and the Railroads.]21
[Changes in Military Prisons.]21
[Frank Sanborn on the State Control of County Jails.]22
[The Booher Bill Passes the House.]23
[Gruesome!]23
[National Agitation for State Use System.]23
[Pardons.]24
[Farming by Texas Prisoners.]24

VOLUME IV, No. 3. MARCH, 1914 THE DELINQUENT
(FORMERLY THE REVIEW)
A MONTHLY PERIODICAL, PUBLISHED BY THE
NATIONAL PRISONERS’ AID ASSOCIATION
AT 135 EAST 15th STREET, NEW YORK CITY.
THIS COPY TEN CENTS. ONE DOLLAR A YEAR

T. F. Garver, President.
Wm. M. R. French, Vice-President.
O. F. Lewis, Secretary, Treasurer and Editor The Delinquent.
Edward Fielding, Chairman Ex. Committee.
F. Emory Lyon, Member Ex. Committee.
W. G. McLaren, Member Ex. Committee.
A. H. Votaw, Member Ex. Committee.
E. A. Fredenhagen, Member Ex. Committee.
Joseph P. Byers, Member Ex. Committee.
R. B. McCord, Member Ex. Committee.

Entered as second-class mail matter at New York.

THE “DOPE HABIT”

[We reprint Edward Marshall’s illuminating article from the New York Times of February 22nd on the most recent serious menace within our prisons, and outside of them. There has come throughout the country, apparently a relatively sudden realization of the fearful effects of the habit-forming drugs.]

Habit-forming drugs and their ravages, destructive of both the morals and the health of the community, seem at last to have aroused commensurate human indignation, at least in New York city.

Discussion is continual of this strangest and saddest of the problems of our modern civilization; city officials are definitely interested, studying and planning; a committee, including in its membership magistrates and others of sociological force, works on an impulse supplied by Mrs. Vanderbilt; and from a third source definite legislation emanates to be offered in the Legislatures of this and other States and in the National Congress.

Nothing more astonishing, nothing more appalling than the hold which habit-forming drugs have taken on the community at large can be found among the tragedies peculiar to modern civilization.

And all this has come suddenly. Not so many years ago the opium smoker was the only known victim, and he was a curiosity of Chinatown; the morphine taker was a rare, and troubled spirit, stalking solitary in its slavery and misery; the cocaine fiend remained unknown, and the heroin addict—latest in all this incomparably tragic company—was undreamed of.