The REVIEW is growing gently. We hope surely, also. Its purpose to be
a live news-sheet in the prison field is being gradually worked out.
What the REVIEW wants is comment from its subscribers as to how it
can be made most useful.
The editor holds that the “prison field” includes efforts in behalf of
the prisoner before imprisonment, after imprisonment, on probation and
on parole. Very germane to the work and interest of prisoners and
societies are movements for the care of those mentally and socially
sick and tending toward delinquency and crime, such as the tramp and
the vagrant, the inebriate, the feeble-minded offender, the youthful
transgressor. So the REVIEW will give a share of its attention to such
actual or proposed organizations or institutions as children’s courts
and villages, farm colonies, hospitals and colonies for inebriates,
psychopathic institutions for the study of the defective delinquent,
as well as to all the movements and progress of general interest in
the narrower prison field.
During these four months W. D. Lane, a member of the New York School
of Philanthropy, has been serving the REVIEW as Assistant Editor. His
help has been of very material value.