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PARENTAL RELATIONS AT 16 YEARS

Parents living 295
Mother living 65
Father living 38
Parents dead 33
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Total 431
CONJUGAL RELATIONS
Single 254
Married 152
Widowed 25
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Total 431
NUMBER HAVING CHILDREN
Number having children 112
Number of children 301
NATIVITY
Born in the United States 346
Foreign born 85
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Total 431
Of the foreign born, naturalized 31
Of the foreign born, Not naturalized 54
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Total 85
RECEPTIONS CLASSIFIED AS TO DISTRICTS
Received from Manufacturing Districts 161
Received from Mining Districts 70
Received from Agricultural Districts 200
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Total 431

The following figures were gathered by the Moral Instructor, the Rev.
Joseph Welsh, in his interviews with the prisoners admitted during
the year:

Total number received during the year 431

Number who attended Sunday School 286
Number who attended Church 232
Number who were members of Church 157
 Number who were abstainers from use of liquor 63
Number who were moderate users of liquor 159
Number who were intemperate users of liquor 170
Number who were users of tobacco 356
Number who gambled with cards 29
Number who gambled on horse races 11
Number who visited immoral women 158
Number who kept mistresses 2

THE PHILADELPHIA COUNTY PRISON

This Prison still keeps up its record as a well managed institution.
Unfortunately, the Convict Department at Holmesburg is somewhat
overcrowded, and it is to be regretted that funds have not yet been
provided by the City Councils for additional corridors, so that each
man could be separately confined as the law provides. It is admitted
by the advocates both of the separate and of the congregate
system, that those awaiting trial should be strictly separated. To
place a first, and especially a young offender, with a hardened
criminal, simply means the production of another criminal, and
places the State itself in the position of committing a wrong against
one of its own citizens.

Frederick J. Pooley, one of the Secretaries of the Society and Agent

at the County Prison, is more untiring than ever in his efforts for the
betterment of those incarcerated in Moyamensing, at Tenth and
Reed Streets, and in the New County Jail (Convict Department), at
Holmesburg. He visits both institutions during five days in the week,
seeks to aid men temporally and morally, is instrumental in having
cases brought to speedy trial, and in some cases even looks after
the destitute families of prisoners. At Moyamensing, women
members of the Acting Committee also visit in the Women’s
Department.
During the year 1906 there were received at the County Prison,
Tenth and Reed Streets:

White males 17,085

White females 2,180
Black males 3,106
Black females 1,005
Total committed, 1906 23,376
Total discharged, 1906 23,452

After trial many were sent to Holmesburg.

THE ASSOCIATED COMMITTEE OF WOMEN ON

POLICE MATRONS
The Associated Committee of Women on Police Matrons in Station
Houses meets monthly with three representatives from each of a
number of the charitable associations of Philadelphia. On this
Committee, the Pennsylvania Prison Society is represented by Mrs. P.
W. Lawrence, Dr. Emily J. Ingram and Mary S. Wetherell. The
following is the report of the Committee for the past year:

The Committee on Police Matrons held ten regular and one special
meeting during the year ending December 31, 1906.

The membership of this Committee is now twenty-one women who

represent seven societies, namely, the Pennsylvania Prison Society,
Women’s Christian Temperance Union, Civic Club, New Century Club,
Young Women’s Christian Association, Christian League, and
Mothers’ Club. The usual attendance is from eight to twelve
members. Reports are received from all the Matrons at each
meeting. There are twenty-two. The fourteenth district
(Germantown) was supplied with a Matron in March, 1906. The
effort is made that each Matron shall receive at least one visit a
month. The meeting of the Conference of Charities in Philadelphia in
May last brought us unusual interest in the work of Police Matrons
elsewhere, and we formed a permanent committee to secure
knowledge of it in other cities, and comparison of methods with
them. At several meetings of this year, four Matrons at a time were
invited to meet with the Committee, and offer suggestions and state
experiences requiring help and study. The Needle Work Guild
coöperates with the Committee for supplying clothing to the Matrons
for their use with needy women and children under their care. Mrs.
Fletcher, our Senior Matron, completed her twentieth year of service,
and was given a reception by the Committee, at which the Directors
and other officials were present. In this time she has had 9,000
women and 2,900 children under her care. The Director of Public
Safety, Robert McKenty, has been especially interested in an effort to
give personal help to erring women and girls, and extends every
facility for our communication with such, by directing the Lieutenants
to coöperate with our efforts to redeem them from disgrace and
despair. The numbers given in our reports are, of course, from
twenty-two districts only. There are fourteen others without Matrons,
where many women and children are received. We have been
assured that a Matron will be appointed in West Philadelphia very
soon, and there is also a prospect of more effective systematic work
in coöperation and supervision of this branch of police
administration.

STATISTICS

(Except as to totals and conditions when received, statistics cannot

be made absolutely accurate, especially as to “Nationality and
Disposal.”)

Women under care from January, 1906, to January, 1907 9,295

Arrested 7,475
Lost or seeking shelter 379
Mothers 2,898
Intoxicated 3,679
White 6,502
Colored 2,288
Disposals.
Discharged with and without fines 2,074
Sent to Reformatories 672
House of Correction 923
County Prison 2,255
Americans 5,320
Foreigners 2,934
Children under care from January, 1906, to January, 1907 6,839
Arrested 3,417
Lost or ran away 2,846
White 5,497
Colored 651
Brought with parents 468
Disposals.
Sent home 4,695
S. P. C. C. and Aid Society 387
Charities and Reformatories 449
House of Detention and Juvenile Court 572

Respectfully submitted,
Mrs. P. W. Lawrence.

CHESTER COUNTY PRISON

William Scattergood, President of the Board of Inspectors, makes
weekly visits to this prison, and reports it in good condition. It is
considered a model prison. Deborah C. Leeds, a member of the
Acting Committee, has also visited it during the year.

COUNTY PRISON AT MEDIA

Deborah C. Leeds has visited this prison several times during the
year, and reports it a well conducted institution.

ALLEGHENY COUNTY

Mrs. E. W. Gormley, Superintendent of the Prison and Jail

Department of the W. C. T. U., is also a member of the Acting
Committee of the Pennsylvania Prison Society, and as such an official
visitor to the penitentiaries, county jails and reformatories of the
Commonwealth. We are highly favored in having a member who is
doing efficient work in the western part of the State.

DOOR OF BLESSING

This institution for discharged female prisoners was established and

is under the supervision of Mrs. Horace Fassett, who is an official
visitor at the Eastern Penitentiary and the County Prison. She writes:
“The Door of Blessing goes steadily on in its good work under its
noble matron, Gertrude Brown. Since January, 1906, fifty women
and four babies were sent there from our County Prison, the House
of Correction, and the Eastern Penitentiary. All of these were placed
in situations in the country, mostly on farms. Some have returned to
go to better positions, some have remained, and very few have gone
back to their old life. The Door of Blessing is a home for these dear
children in every sense of the word—a haven of rest and peace. All
love it and look forward to their afternoons out, that they may go
there and have supper with the matron and tell her of their joys and
sorrows, to which she listens with loving sympathy. Six women were
sent to their homes, their families being willing to receive them after
a short stay at the Door of Blessing.”

HOME OF INDUSTRY

This institution extends help to men discharged from the Eastern

Penitentiary and the County Prison. It provides board and shelter for
these, gives them employment in broom-making, for which they
receive compensation, and seeks to bring all who enter it under the
saving power of the Gospel. The efficient Superintendent is Frank H.
Starr, who makes every effort to place men in situations when they
leave the Home.

GALILEE MISSION

This is under the care of the Protestant Episcopal Church. A large

number of men from the Penitentiary and County Prison have been
sent there for meals and lodgings, sometimes only for a few days,
and at other times for a week or two until they could obtain work.

HOPE HALL, NEW YORK. UNDER THE CARE OF MRS.

BALLINGTON BOOTH

During the year a number of men have been sent to this place from
the Eastern Penitentiary. Mrs. Booth always receives such with a
warm welcome, and often obtains good situations for them.

PRISON SUNDAY

In the early part of October, 1906, the Committee on Prison Sunday

sent out a circular letter, urging the observance of October 21st as
Prison Sunday, to thirty-three hundred ministers of the Methodist
Episcopal, the Presbyterian, the Baptist, the Lutheran, the Protestant
Episcopal, and the Reformed Churches in Pennsylvania, and to six
hundred daily and weekly newspapers.

From the Minutes

MEMORIALS OF DECEASED MEMBERS

George W. Hall

George W. Hall, former member of the State Legislature and of

City Councils, a well-known financier, and President of the
Pennsylvania Prison Society, passed away on December 14,
1906, in the 77th year of his age. He was a member of the
Franklin Institute, a director of the School of Design for Women,
a director of the Home for Feeble Minded Children at Elwyn, a
member of the St. Andrew’s Society, a trustee of the Second
Presbyterian Church, and an inspector of the Philadelphia
County Prison.

It seems proper that there should be a minute of record of one

who for years has been an active member, besides being a life
member of the Society. He spent much time in looking after the
welfare of the prisoners at the County Prison, Tenth and Reed
Streets, and at Holmesburg, where he will be greatly missed.

May this minute be recorded and a copy sent to the surviving

members of his family.

Rev. James Roberts, D. D.

Rev. James Roberts, D. D., was born at Montrose, Scotland,

December 25, 1839.
He came to this country with his parents at an early age, and
was graduated from the Princeton Theological Seminary in
1868. His first charge was at Coatesville, Pa., where he
remained until 1885, when he took charge of the Church at
Darby, Pa. After remaining there ten years he accepted a call to
Lambertville, N. J. On leaving this charge he became
Superintendent of the Mercer Home for Aged and Retired
Ministers, which position he filled until called suddenly from
earth on September 27, 1906. His genial, affectionate ways
widened the circle of his friends, who were found among all
classes. It is with sincere sorrow that our Society records the
departure of another of its most honored members and Second
Vice-President.

Resolved, That this minute be entered on our records and a

copy thereof with our sympathies be sent to the bereaved
family.
 The Pennsylvania Prison Society.

I close my report with the earnest wish that the Pennsylvania Prison
Society may constantly widen its scope of operations and grow in
efficiency and usefulness as it grows in years.

The work I have performed during not only the last, but for many
years, has been very dear to my heart, and I have felt that I have
had an especial call to the service. Conscious, however, of my need
continually of Divine guidance in all that I have done in His name, I
have earnestly sought for that wisdom which will enable me to do all
for Him.

With sincere desire that I may be a humble instrument in His hands

in winning souls unto Christ, this report is respectfully submitted.

John J. Lytle,
General Secretary.

Joshua L. Baily was elected President of The Pennsylvania Prison

Society at the annual meeting, January, 1907. His membership in the
Society dates from 1851 and he is the oldest member now living. For
a number of years he was a member of the Acting Committee and a
regular visitor of the Eastern Penitentiary. His great interest in prison
discipline induced him, some years ago, to visit voluntarily all the
penitentiaries in the Atlantic States, as well as some of those in the
States of the Central West, and he visited also many of the County
Prisons in Pennsylvania and other States. His interest in correctional
institutions was further shown by ten years’ service on the Board of
Managers of the House of Refuge.
Mr. Baily has been no less actively interested in charitable
institutions, having been for more than fifty years a manager of The
Philadelphia Society for the Employment and Instruction of the Poor,
of which he is now President. He was one of the founders, and for
eighteen years the President of The Philadelphia Society for
Organizing Charity. He is also a member and manager of a number
of other benevolent societies, so that by reason of long experience,
in both correctional and charitable service, Mr. Baily comes to the
Presidency of the Prison Society well equipped for the duties
devolving upon him. Although still engaged in mercantile business,
Mr. Baily gives a large portion of his time, as well as his means, to
benevolent purposes, and devotes thereto a degree of vigor, both
mental and physical, quite unusual in one of his advanced years.

THE NATIONAL PRISON CONGRESS

Albany, New York, September, 15-20, 1906.

The National Prison Association met in its annual Congress, in the

Senate Chamber of the State Capitol, at Albany, N. Y., on the
evening of September 15, 1906. The meeting was called to order by
the Chairman of the Local Committee, Mr. James F. McElroy, and
prayer was offered by the Rev. W. F. Wittaker, D. D., pastor of the
First Presbyterian Church.

The Hon. Julius E. Mayer, Attorney-General, represented the

Governor in the address of welcome in behalf of the State, and the
Mayor of Albany, the Hon. Charles H. Gans, spoke for the city. The
Rev. Dr. Frederick Howard Wines made the response, in which he
dwelt in reminiscent vein on some of his experiences since the first
meeting of the Association, and spoke especially of the leading men
who were connected with it during its early history. Dr. Wines
advocated three reforms: 1, the abolition of the “sweating” or “third-
degree” system, which he called an outrage on the rights of
prisoners; 2, the reorganization of the jury system, so that juries
could no longer be selected by the “Gang” for the express purpose
of defeating justice; and 3, the dismissing of small misdemeanants
on their own recognizance, instead of crowding the jails with these.

Dr. Wines then introduced the President of the Association, the Hon.
Cornelius V. Collins, Superintendent of Prisons of New York State.

PRESIDENT’S ADDRESS
Mr. Collins, after alluding briefly to the purposes and work of the
Association, rehearsed the part his own State had taken in the
development of plans for the scientific treatment of criminals. Having
traced the successive steps in prison reform, in which he showed
that New York State had taken the lead, he said:

“Public sentiment has always called for the education and training of
the young. How much more important and of what inestimable value
is the saving of the adult. Situated as we are here, at the gateway of
the republic, we admit at Ellis Island more than a million new people
each year. Vital statistics in New York City gave 59,000 births last
year, only 11,000 of which were of American parentage. Austria,
Russia and Italy each sent us 200,000 immigrants last year. What is
more natural than that many of them, wholly unacquainted with our
country, our language and our laws, should in their first effort at
living in the land of liberty run counter to our laws and find their way
to prison. Surely they do come, and the number is constantly
increasing. There are now 12,000 convicts in the prisons of this
State, made up largely from this cosmopolitan army of ignorance
and superstition. This is the problem we have to solve in New York
State, and while it is no doubt a fact that our State will always have
more than others, it is nevertheless true that every State in the
Union will have this class of prisoners to deal with in increasing
numbers as time goes on.”
Superintendent Collins detailed the good that followed the
separation and classification of prison inmates into groups or grades
and the training of the mental faculties through the plan of
education in vogue in New York State prisons. The labor and
industrial training provided in connection with mental training was
spoken of and a plea was made for the indeterminate sentence. In
conclusion Superintendent Collins made a timely argument in favor
of a reform in county jails. In this connection he said:

“We who are familiar with the facts know that many convicts are
received at the prisons who are morally poisoned and contaminated
while awaiting trial in the jails by the intimate association with
confirmed and degraded criminals which is permitted in these
institutions. This is especially true of the younger class of offenders,
who come to the jail having respect for authority and dread of
confinement. At no period of their penal term are they so susceptible
to external influences. If at this period a practical reformatory
influence is exerted upon them, their correction can in most cases be
accomplished, but if they are left in idleness and subject to the evil
influences of degraded companions their respect for law is soon
destroyed, and they become hardened and defiant and accept the
theories and ambitions of the confirmed criminals as their own. Thus
the man who enters jail in such condition that proper treatment
would readily turn him from his criminal course often reaches the
prison a most discouraging subject for its reformatory system.

“For the interest of society, as well as the protection of young

offenders, the jail system should be corrected. The jail buildings are
improved and the prisoners are better fed than they were fifty years
ago; otherwise the system remains practically the same. Its
conspicuous defects still exist. No chain is stronger than its weakest
link; the extensive schemes of penal administration in the several
States have their fatally weak part in their jails. Genuine and
effective organization in the United States for the salvation of
criminals and alleged criminals must take heed of these facts, which
are notorious.
“May I now suggest that a committee, to be called, if you please,
the Committee on Plan and Scope, be appointed at this session of
the Prison Congress to consider the following recommendations:

“First. A rational and uniform system of jail administration.

“Second. A uniform system of education for prison officers.

“Third. A uniform system of education for convicts.

“Fourth. So far as possible, a uniform system of prison discipline.

“Fifth. A uniform system of classification.

“Sixth. A uniform system of parole, and a careful consideration of all

other matters that in their judgment would tend to make further
reforms in the treatment of the criminal classes.

“This committee to make a report of their conclusions at the session

of 1907.”

The Congress, deeply impressed by Mr. Collins’ recommendations,

subsequently appointed a strong committee to report at the next
meeting on the jail system in the United States.

Sunday, September 16th

MORNING

The Conference Sermon was preached by the Rt. Rev. William

Crosswell Doane, D. D., LL. D., Bishop of the Diocese of Albany, in
the Cathedral of All Saints, where the delegates attended in a body.
The Bishop’s text was Matt. 25:36, “I was in prison and ye came
unto me.” He said in part: “Almost by an instinctive impulse these
words come first to the mind of the preacher at such a service, and
by a striking and happy coincidence this service falls upon the
Sunday when our Book of Common Prayer appoints for the second
morning lesson the chapter which ends with this intense expression
of our Lord, containing, I think, the seed principle upon which the
noble work of this Association was founded and has been carried on.
Last year the preacher took the earthly ministry of our dear divine
Lord as the pattern of this work, ‘Who went about doing good.’

“I am only supplementing and carrying along the line of his thought

when I ask you to think of the divine Master as giving not the
pattern only, but the principle of your work. There is no contradiction
in the double presentation of our Lord’s personality along this as
along so many other lines. He is so essentially by His incarnation in
our human nature that we bring Him to those to whom we minister
in His name and find Him in those to whom we bring Him. And in
either of these sides the truth is set forth and enforced that the
object of all Christian service, whether it be the work of Christianity
in religious teaching, or the work of Christianity in the administration
of civic affairs, is not the violent denunciation or vindictive infliction
of punishment upon a sinner, but the offer of help and the
opportunity of reform. The Prison Reform Association may well claim
that it describes and expresses in its name the purpose for which in
Christian lands prisons exist. ‘He came not to condemn the world,
but to save it.’ ‘The Son of Man has come to seek and save the lost.’

“Curiously enough, whatever technical differences may lie in the use

of the various words prison and gaol and reformatory, there is one
that stands out as having in its root meaning the very thought of
that on which we are dwelling, because the penitentiary is certainly
the place where men are led and drawn, through real penitence, to
seek and find pardon and peace.

“I am not losing sight of the purpose of imprisonment both to stamp

crime as crime and to protect society from the criminal. I am only
advocating the thought of reform for which this Association stands.
If a man is a murderer condemned to die, then there is the
overwhelming duty and responsibility of bringing him to repentance,
that he may die forgiven. If he is serving a sentence indeterminate
or for a fixed time, then surely the influence and effort of prison
discipline must be not to harden him into sullen hatred of law and of
all that the law stands for, not in a harbored purpose to revenge
himself in some way, when once he is free, upon the society which
has condemned him; but to waken in him such a sense of shame as
shall force him back to the possibility of self-respect, and bring him
to that point of realized wrong by means of which he shall ‘come to
himself.’ That is the Master’s own description of the prodigal son. Far
as he had strayed from his father’s house, he had strayed farther
from his real self, the self of his innocent childhood, the self of his
home and surroundings, the self of his true nature, and it was when
the true man wakened in him that, coming first to himself, he came
next to his father’s house.

“In this recognition of the criminal’s sin there must be enforced the
discipline of penalty, and of penalty as punishment, but it must be
carefully dealt with, so as in no sense to convey the thought of
retribution or of vindictive retaliation. The strides of progress which
have been made in the last century and a half under the methods of
such real reformers as Howard and Wines (whom, as a boy, I
remember very well), and Elizabeth Fry and Dorothy Dix, have,
among other things, set the stamp of this idea in the fact that capital
punishment, which used to be inflicted for many crimes, is reserved
to the one for which it was divinely ordered, and from which, I trust,
it will never be taken away, namely, the sin of shedding another’s
blood. Meanwhile, more and more, in the selection of wardens, in
the appointment of chaplains, in the abolition of the fearful cruelties
of physical torture, in the decent sanitation of prisons, we have
grown more and more to realize that the condemned criminal is to
be treated as a man who needs protection, systematic discipline, the
training of the prison, to protect him from himself, to put into him
the purpose and set before him the possibility of a better life, rather
than to humiliate and crush him into desperation and despair. It is
quite true that no amount of legislation and no method of enforcing
laws can make a man moral, but it is also true that the law which
defines and punishes sin deters men from the commission of crime,
and when the criminal is condemned and sentenced and his
punishment begins, only the power of religion can reach him to
convince him of his sin, to convert him from his habits, to reach the
motives of his life, to change the tendency of his will, to form in him
new habits, to give him the spiritual help by which his conscience
may be enlightened and his character changed.

“And there are certain human, natural, physical reasons for the right
attitude to the convicted criminal which more than warrant us in
assuming it as the groundwork and motive of our dealings with him.
It is told, I think of an English bishop, seeing a criminal drawn in a
tumbril to execution on Ludgate Hill, in London, that he said, ‘There
go I but for grace.’ Somehow I know it is true that now and then
men whose lives have been surrounded from childhood up to the
very moment of their fall with the best influences, suddenly lapse
into great sin. We have instances in the last year which have startled
and staggered communities, men in places of trust who have
betrayed it, and have either been flung down from the position of
confidence and honor or fallen themselves, and found in flight or in
suicide the fatal termination of what has seemed to be a career of
honorable service. I am bound to say a word even for these. I
believe the vindictive personalities which have assailed some of
these men are in some cases absolutely unjust.

“There ought to be, thank God, there is, more and more in the great
movements in our cities, a strong, set effort of prevention, which is
far better than cure. The prisons will be emptier when we have
reached the root and reason of crime. If we can control the use of
liquor and stop at least its excess; if we can stamp out the curse of
drunkenness; if we can more and more arrest the degradation of our
slums; if we can train up a race of children in surroundings of
physical healthfulness, of moral decency and dignity; and still better,
if we can instil into them from earliest childhood the principles and
pattern of Jesus Christ, we shall have begun, at the right end, the
restoration and the reformation of humanity. Meanwhile, until all
these movements have ripened into some result, it becomes us to
remember from what sources and in what surroundings the grown-
up criminal has come; to realize how far we, by our neglect and
indifference, have been responsible for them; and to reach out the
helping hand of deep sympathy and pity in the effort to reclaim, to
restore and to reform.

“The great revealed truth of universal redemption is full of grace and

help. Still more, the truth of individual indwelling of the Christ in us,
the hope of glory. It is true that in a way this is a doctrine, a dogma,
as people say who think of a dogma as a tyrannical imposition upon
their intellectual liberty; but it is truer still that, like many another
thing which we call dogma, it is a fact on which depends not merely
our holding right faith in Jesus Christ as the God-man, but on which
also depend the method and the hope and the value of our dealing
with humanity at large or with the individual man. It has in it besides
the very highest human hope possible for you and me, that in the
great day of eternal decision there shall be for us who have
recognized Jesus in those to whom we ministered here the full
revelation and manifestation of His glorious God-head, with the word
of ‘well done’ and welcome into ‘the kingdom prepared for us from
the foundation of the world.’”

EVENING

At many churches of the city various phases of the work of the

Association were presented by delegates to the Congress. At the
Cathedral Mr. Thomas M. Osborne, President of the George Junior
Republic, Auburn, N. Y., spoke on “The True Foundations of Prison
Reform”; Mr. George B. Wellington, of Troy, on “The Duty That We
Owe the Convict”; and Prof. Henderson, of Chicago, on “Preventive
Work with Children.” The latter maintained that the proper training
of a child to keep it from becoming a criminal began before it was
born. Crime was not a heritage, but criminal tendencies sometimes
were. Judge Lindsay, the great enthusiast in behalf of children, had
said that the Juvenile court was organized to keep children out of
jail, but that now the problem was to keep children out of the
Juvenile court. The problem is to get back to childhood, back to
infancy. Babyhood determined whether there should be a large or a
small criminal class. Place the child from earliest infancy into such a
physical environment and under such mental and spiritual influences
as will produce the habit of right living.

Monday, September 17

MORNING

The meeting was called to order by President Collins and opened

with prayer by the Rev. Thomas D. Anderson. After the appointment
of committees and other routine business, the Wardens’ Association
went into session. In the absence of the President, Mr. N. N. Jones,
Iowa State Prison, Fort Madison, his address was read by Mr. Frank
L. Randall, Minnesota, who had been called to the chair. The paper
was a compact statement of the warden’s relation to current prison
reform. With reference to prison labor it showed how small a portion
of the total product is contributed by prisoners. Regarding the
relation of discipline to reformation, the writer said: “Discipline is the
medium through which all reform becomes effective. The attitude of
the warden toward reform should be sympathetic and receptive.”

A paper on “Prison Labor,” by the Hon. John T. McDonough, Ex-

Secretary of State, was listened to with considerable interest,
because Mr. McDonough, as a member of the Constitutional
Convention of 1894, had much to do with framing the constitutional
amendment wiping out the contract labor system and prohibiting the
sale of prison-made goods in the open market. Under the present
laws of New York no work can be done by convicts in competition
with outside labor. Whatever is made in the prisons of the State
must “be disposed of to the State or any political division thereof, or
for or to any public institution owned or managed and controlled by
the State, or any political division thereof.” At the same time every
inmate of the several State prisons, penitentiaries, jails, and
reformatories in the State, who is physically able, must be set to
work. By a strong array of figures and apparently favorable
comparisons Mr. McDonough undertook to demonstrate the merits
and success of the new system. In replying to the paper, Dr. Barrows
maintained that in spite of the law several thousand prisoners in the
jails and penitentiaries of the State are supported in idleness.

Mr. John E. Van De Carr, Superintendent of the New York City

Reformatory of Misdemeanants, on Hart’s Island, read a paper in
which he gave an account of said institution and its work. This
reformatory, which is the only one in the United States solely for
misdemeanants, is the child of Greater New York’s charter. By that
charter it became the duty of the Commissioner of Correction “to
cause all criminals and misdemeanants under his charge to be
classified as far as practicable, so that youthful and less hardened
offenders shall not be rendered more depraved by association with
and the example of the older and more hardened,” and “to set apart
one or more of the penal institutions in his department for the
custody of such youthful offenders.” By an act of the Legislature,
passed in 1904, the charter of the reform school on Hart’s Island
was amended, and the institution was continued and known after
January 1, 1905, as “The New York City Reformatory of
Misdemeanants.” To this “any male person between the ages of
sixteen and thirty, after conviction by a magistrate or court in the
city of New York of any charge, offense, misdemeanor, or crime,
other than a felony, may be committed for reformatory treatment.”
The time of such imprisonment, which must not exceed three years,
but must continue at least three months, is terminated by the Board
of Parole, which consists of nine commissioners who serve without
compensation for a term of one year. The first three rules under the
system by means of which an inmate may work out his release on
parole (which is determined by merit marks based on demeanor,
labor, and study) are as follows: 1. All inmates enter the New York
City Reformatory of Misdemeanants in the second grade. 2. If such
inmate shall obtain 900 merit marks he shall thereafter enter the
first or highest grade. 3. If such inmate shall violate any rules of the
Reformatory, or shall in any way be disobedient or ungovernable, he
shall be reduced to the third or lowest grade; and no such inmate
shall reënter the second grade unless he shall have obtained 300
merit marks. When an inmate is eligible for release on parole, and is
so recommended by the superintendent, he is placed on parole in
charge of a parole officer for a period of six months, provided he has
a home to go to, or employment whereby he can become self-
sustaining. Should he violate his parole at any time, the Board of
Parole has power to revoke the same and cause his rearrest and
reimprisonment as if said parole had not been ordered. To make the
system effective, the spiritual welfare of the inmates is faithfully
cared for by the Catholic, Protestant, and Hebrew chaplains of the
Department of Correction; mental training is provided for by a
teacher from the Board of Education; and six different trade-schools
furnish industrial instruction. The results so far have proved very
satisfactory, the conduct of over eighty-three per cent. of those
paroled being reported as satisfactory. “Our experience has already
convinced us,” declares the superintendent, “that the modern ideas
on this subject are purely scientific, and not sentimental, and that
many sent to prison should first be placed in some reformatory
where the class of institution in which they should justly be detained
could safely be determined. We also feel that it may become
necessary to extend the minimum term of three months to a longer
period. A sentence is really not reformatory if the minimum is three
months; at least the reformation is but temporary. Permanent
reformation requires the teaching of a trade, and a trade cannot be
learned in that time, although we have accomplished surprising
results in that period. To secure the greatest good to the boy, the
trades taught should be those that are best paid, namely, the
building trades.”
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