Necessity of more funds to aid discharged convicts, Aid needed, COMMUTATION LAW. Now applied to County Prison, 25 Mr. Mullen continued as Agent, His services not be rendered by others, His settlement of cases, His labors approved by the Courts, Mr. Mullen's co-operation with others in the good work, Numerous cases settled by Mr. Mullen, Review of Mr. Tallack's paper, New interest, creating new views, Motive of Mr. Tallack, Mr. Dickens' mistakes, Mr. Tallack's great error, Seeks his information at wrong sources, Eastern Penitentiary charged with changing its discipline, Mr. Tallack's misstatement with regard to former and present His neglect of the Penitentiary reports, . Mr. Tallack approves of separate confinement, CASIERS JUDICIARES. Remarks upon the intention of criminal law,. How they are used. Casiers Judiciares thought to be applicable to all countries, . 56 M. Bonneville's application of the Casiers, PRISON MATTERS IN THE UNITED STATES. MASSACHUSETTS Growing policy to place pauper children in families, Massachusetts State prison pays, Other prisons in the State do not pay, Statistics of the State prison, . Drunkenness not extensive in Massachusetts, No drunkard in Plymouth County Jail, . NEW YORK STATE REPORTS. A well prepared and well printed statement, Employment of prisoners, SING SING. Crowded state of the prison an evil, Occupation of prisoners before conviction, AUBURN PRISON. Number and earnings of convicts, . 59 59 60 Cost of maintaining, Rations, . Punishment, Chaplain's Report, Asylum for insane convicts, NEW JERSEY STATE PRISON. General fault of administration, want to make money, MAINE STATE PRISON. Manufacturing to be conducted on a large scale, Disturbance in France, prevent reports, . Foreign criminals are sent out of the country when their sen- tence ends, Arrests and imprisonment often multiply crime, Table, showing the change in the comparative number of black Consideration of the condition of black and white female More caution necessary, The Philadelphia Society for Alleviating the Miseries of Public Prisons. REPORT. A JOURNAL, perhaps, should be a record of each day's proceedings, and some might hence infer that as the Philadelphia Society for Alleviating the Miseries of Public Prisons holds but four regular and one or two special sessions a year, and as its committees meet only once a month, a Journal would scarcely be a proper name for its Annual Statements. A "Year Book," or some name of that kind, might be supposed an appropriate title for its-record. Though the stated meetings are, comparatively, so few, yet the word "Journal" seems to express the character of the acts-for day by day is the Society in the field, by its Committee, its Sub-committee and its appointed Agent. The cells of the Penitentiary are resonant with the voice of the visitors of both sexes, who go to alleviate the miseries of the incarcerated convict and whisper consolation, while they convince of wrong. |