This day was observed as usual in several states on either the fourth
or last Sunday in October. The Connecticut prison association, in
issuing a call, directed attention to the fact that the great need in
that state is a change in our treatment of petty offenders. “We made
great progress in the treatment of these cases when we established the
probation service, which keeps many out of jail. But during 1910 there
were 10,468 commitments to our county jails. Six thousand and fifty of
these, by their own admission, has been in prison before.”
In New York the prison association sent special letters to about 1,500
pastors, 200 of whom responded favorably. Special literature was
furnished each pastor.