The Local Committee and the Young Men’s Christian Association for the
delightful carriage ride, the newspapers, the Street Railway Company,
the Old Stone Church, Rev. W. D. Pickard, D.D., for his admirable
sermon, and Dr. S. B. Barrows for his paper on criminal law, were
passed by a rising vote.
It was stated that in Indiana Industrial School for Girls each one was
kept separate, or cellular. In Massachusetts women are sent to jail,
then to a reformatory, but if convicted more than twice are sent to
prison.
Rev. Dr. Pickard made some brief remarks, also Professor Henderson, and
the Congress closed with singing the Doxology and Benediction, 5 P. M.,
Sept. 26, 1900.
Next Congress, Kansas City, 1901.
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The above report was read at a meeting of the Pennsylvania Prison
Society, October 18, 1900. It was directed “that it be printed in the
Journal of 1901.”
MRS. DEBORAH C. LEEDS,
JOHN J. LYTLE,
REV. R. HEBER BARNES, _Sec. Com._
_Pennsylvania Official Delegates at Large from the Society._