NEW SERIES No. 51 THE JOURNAL OF PRISON DISCIPLINE AND

SPECIAL NOTICES.

FORM OF BEQUEST OF PERSONAL PROPERTY.

FORM OF DEVISE OF REAL ESTATE.

OFFICERS OF THE SOCIETY FOR 1912 President

COMMITTEES FOR 1912 Committee to Visit the Eastern Penitentiary

ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-FIFTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE PENNSYLVANIA PRISON SOCIETY.

REPORT OF THE ACTING COMMITTEE FOR THE YEAR 1911.

DEATH OF ROBERT B. ADAMS.

REPORT OF TREASURER. John Way , Treasurer . IN ACCOUNT WITH The

GENERAL AGENT'S REPORT 1911.

ENFORCE IDLENESS OF PRISONERS

THE PHILADELPHIA COUNTY PRISON AT HOLMESBURG.

BORSTAL ENGLAND. (Extracts from letter of Daniel Buckley.)

SUMMARY OF THE EIGHTY-SECOND ANNUAL REPORT OF THE INSPECTORS OF

WESTERN PENITENTIARY.

REPORTS OF COUNTY JAILS IN PENNSYLVANIA.

PRISONERS' AID SOCIETIES.

PAROLE IN CALIFORNIA

RELIEF GIVEN PRISONERS WHEN DISCHARGED FROM STATE PRISONS.

NEW SERIES No. 51 THE JOURNAL

OF

PRISON DISCIPLINE

AND

PHILANTHROPY



PUBLISHED ANNUALLY

BY THE

PENNSYLVANIA PRISON SOCIETY

INSTITUTED MAY 8, 1787



MARCH, 1912



OFFICE: STATE HOUSE ROW
S. W. CORNER FIFTH AND CHESTNUT STREETS
PHILADELPHIA, PA.

OFFICIAL VISITORS.

No person who is not an official visitor of the prison, or who has not a written permission, according to such rules as the Inspectors may adopt as aforesaid, shall be allowed to visit the same; the official visitors are: the Governor, the Speaker and members of the Senate; the Speaker and members of the House of Representatives; the Secretary of the Commonwealth; the Judges of the Supreme Court; the Attorney-General and his Deputies; the President and Associate Judges of all the courts in the State; the Mayor and Recorders of the cities of Philadelphia, Lancaster, and Pittsburg; Commissioners and Sheriffs of the several Counties; and the “Acting Committee of the Philadelphia Society for Alleviating the Miseries of Public Prisons.” (Note: Now named “The Pennsylvania Prison Society.”)—Section 7, Act of April 23, 1829.

The above was supplemented by the following Act, approved March 20, 1903:

AN ACT.

To make active or visiting committees of societies incorporated for the purpose of visiting and instructing prisoners Official Visitors of penal and reformatory institutions.

Section 1. Be it enacted, etc., That the active or visiting committee of any society heretofore incorporated and now existing in the Commonwealth for the purpose of visiting and instructing prisoners, or persons confined in any penal or reformatory institution, and alleviating their miseries, shall be and are hereby made official visitors of any jail, penitentiary, or other penal or reformatory institution in this Commonwealth, maintained at the public expense, with the same powers, privileges, and functions as are vested in the official visitors of prisons and penitentiaries, as now prescribed by law: Provided, That no active or visiting committee of any such society shall be entitled to visit such jails or penal institutions, under this act, unless notice of the names of the members of such committee, and the terms of their appointment, is given by such society, in writing, under its corporate seal, to the warden, superintendent or other officer in charge of such jail, or other officer in charge of any such jail or other penal institution.

Approved—The 20th day of March, A. D. 1903.

Saml. W. Pennypacker.

The foregoing is a true and correct copy of the Act of the General Assembly No. 48.

Frank M. Fuller,
Secretary of the Commonwealth.