of New York recently made a tour of inspection of correctional
institutions in New York, Pennsylvania and the Province of Ontario,
being the guests of Mr. Richard M. Hurd in his automobile. The tour
included about 1800 miles, and some twenty correctional institutions,
among them Clinton and Auburn State Prisons in New York, the Prison
Farm at Guelph, Ontario, the new Central Prison site at Bellefonte,
Pennsylvania, the State Reformatory of Pennsylvania at Huntingdon, the
Eastern Penitentiary of Pennsylvania?, the State Prison at Trenton, New
Jersey, the Berkshire Industrial Farm and the State Industrial and
Agricultural Farm in New York, and about a dozen county jails. The tour
occupied two weeks, and gave a remarkable opportunity to make careful
and immediate contrasts of various institutions.
* * * * *
In New York State road work by convicts is assuming important
proportions. Superintendent of Prisons John B. Riley is strongly in
favor or the outdoor employment of prisoners on roads.
* * * * *
The Prison Commission of New York is investigating the charges of
Ex-Warden Clancy that drugs are smuggled into Sing Sing prison by
officers and others.
* * * * *
On July 4th, at Great Meadow Prison, six hundred inmates were marched
down to the prison ball field, one half mile from the prison, under the
supervision of inmate officers. The regular prison guards were not used.
* * * * *
Miss Katherine B. Davis, commissioner of correction of New York City,
has been having plenty of activity in the administration of the
department. Several riots occurred at the Penitentiary in the early
part of July, following effective methods of reducing the amount of
“Dope” purveyed by the prisoners. More modern methods of conducting the
city’s correctional institution and a certain antagonism to the new
reform administration of the city’s correctional institutions, also
played a part. The riots were successfully overcome, and Miss Davis was
not only “on the job” but in the midst of it.
* * * * *
In Buffalo, N. Y., a new county jail is to be built for the detention
of prisoners prior to or during trial. The Prison Association of New
York is making a strong campaign for the erection of a thoroughly
modern jail with outside cells, as contrasted with the old traditional
type of inside cages, the prevalent American type of jail construction.
In this campaign the Association is cooperating with a group of the
Board of Supervisors of Erie county. Among those who have written long
letters advocating the outside cell type of construction are Professor
C. R. Henderson of the University of Chicago, Commissioner Katherine B.
Davis of New York, Dr. Hasting H. Hart of the Russell Sage Foundation,
Superintendent Frank Moore of the State Reformatory of New Jersey.
Amos W. Butler of Indiana, and Drs. S. A. Knopf and G. M. Parker of
New York City. The special committee recently appointed by the Board
of Supervisors will visit institutions of both types of construction,
among them the Prison Farm at Guelph.
* * * * *
Because of the absence of any work under the proposed State-use system
which the prisoners could do, it was found necessary to continue for
the present the contract system at the State Prison of New Jersey at
Trenton, although by law all contracts should have expired on June 30th.
* * * * *
There is agitation in Baltimore for a State Workhouse similar to that
of Occoquan, in the District of Columbia.
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Published monthly at New York, N. Y., required by the Act of August
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LEWIS, Editor and Business Manager.
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My Commission expires March 31, 1914.
Transcriber’s Notes
A number of typographical errors were corrected silently.
New original cover art included with this eBook is granted to the
public domain.
Issue number was corrected from 6 to 7