VOLUME I, No. 4.APRIL, 1911
THE REVIEW
A MONTHLY PERIODICAL, PUBLISHED BY THE
NATIONAL PRISONERS’ AID ASSOCIATION
AT 135 EAST 15th STREET, NEW YORK CITY.
TEN CENTS A COPY.SEVENTY-FIVE CENTS A YEAR
| E. F. Waite, President. | E. A. Fredenhagen, Chairman Ex. Committee. | G. E. Cornwall, Member Ex. Committee. |
| F. Emory Lyon, Vice President. | James Parsons, Member Ex. Committee. | Albert Steelman, Member Ex. Committee. |
| O. F. Lewis, Secretary and Editor Review. | A. H. Votaw, Member Ex. Committee. |
THE NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF CHARITIES AND CORRECTION
This year’s conference (Boston, June 7-14) bids fair to be the bestyet. The topics in general are timely and fundamental. The Committeeon Lawbreakers will have for its general session the opening evening,Wednesday, the seventh. In addition to the committee report, a speakerof national reputation will give an address. In the section meetingsthe topics will be, respectively, the care of defective delinquents,modern methods of dealing with misdemeanants, and the development ofsystems of probation and parole. The section meetings will be “roundtable” discussions, open to all.
THE TREND OF LEGISLATION
Most legislative sessions for 1911 are now through or nearly so.Certain general tendencies have been prominent in prison andcorrectional legislation. The problems of prison labor have beenprominent in California, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Texas, Missouri,Michigan, New York and some other states. The trend of legislation isstrongly toward the introduction or strengthening of the state-usesystem. Legislative inquiries into alleged mal-administration havebeen instituted in several states. The question of corporal punishmenthas been under investigation in Michigan. The Review willgive the results of these investigations, but believes it inadvisableto print statements and comments prior to official findings.
Legislatures have been asked in manystates, notably Wisconsin,Indiana, California, New York, to consider the establishment of newkinds of correctional institutions for tramps and vagrants, or forinebriates, or for young misdemeanants. The health of prisonersattracts increasing attention, as well as their mental conditions.
FOUR MONTHS OF THE REVIEW
The Review is growing gently. We hope surely, also. Its purpose to bea live news-sheet in the prison field is being gradually worked out.What the Review wants is comment from its subscribersas to how it can be made most useful.
The editor holds that the “prison field” includes efforts in behalf of theprisoner before imprisonment, after imprisonment, on probation and on parole.Very germane to the work and interest of prisoners and societies are movementsfor the care of those mentally and socially sick and tending toward delinquencyand crime, such as the tramp and the vagrant, the inebriate, the feeble-mindedoffender, the youthful tra