Governor Major of Missouri will recommend legislation to provide for a prison farm, 1000 acres in size to start with.
Road work by State prison convicts will start in a few weeks in Wisconsin. The men will be paid a certain sum for their work.
Sir A. Conan Doyle recently visited Sing Sing, and agreed with everybody but the legislators of the State of New York that Sing Sing ought to go.
A commission has been authorized by the State of Pennsylvania and appointed by the Governor, to consider revision of the penal laws. Two of the members of the commission are Edwin M. Abbott of Philadelphia and Warden McKenty of the Eastern Penitentiary.
On the first of July much more stringent regulations regarding the sale and possession of cocaine and other habit-forming drugs came into effect in New York State. A spectacular and effective campaign is now being waged in New York City against dope-vendors.