The Delinquent (Vol. IV, No. 2), February, 1914Various
History
The Delinquent (Vol. IV, No. 2), February, 1914
Various
Prisons -- Periodicals
_A Correction._--The _Delinquent_ is convinced that after all there is
a “printer’s devil” in every office. For in the January _Delinquent_
there appeared directly following our notice of Miss Davis’s
well-deserved appointment to the commissionership of correction in New
York, a little joke, running about eight lines in length and serving
the printer simply as “filler” on the last page. Unfortunately the dash
that should have separated the two items was omitted. However, we know
that Miss Davis will forgive us, and, after all, we have had to find
fault very seldom with our printer, who from the beginning has given us
a very low rate and good service.
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_For a National Prison Commission._--Rev. Samuel G. Smith, of St.
Paul, president of the American Prison Association, has announced
the members of the committee authorized by the Association at its
last annual session in Indianapolis to wait upon President Wilson and
Attorney-General McReynolds in an effort to have the Federal Government
establish a national prison commission.
The members of the commission are Professor Charles R. Henderson,
of the University of Chicago, and United States Commissioner on
the International Prison Commission; Frank L. Randall, chairman,
Massachusetts Prison Commission; Henry Wolfer, warden of the State
Prison at Stillwater, Minn.; W. H. Moyer, warden of the Federal prison
at Atlanta, and Joseph P. Byers, secretary of the Association and
Commissioner of Charities and Corrections of New Jersey.
The Association in adopting the resolution for the naming of the
committee thought that a national prison commission would be of great
service to the Federal and all the State governments. It is part of the
scheme to establish a school for the training of prison officials.
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_Payments to Prisoners._--Dependents of prisoners now serving in the
Ohio penitentiary received in January the first payments of money
earned by the inmates of the State prison. Under the prison pay system,
only those who are employed each day and whose deportment record is
good receive any compensation for their labors. Men occupied at trades
are paid the highest.
The prison pay system was installed at the penitentiary in the latter
part of September, and under its ruling no prisoner can earn more
than $2.20 each week. The highest amount sent out Thursday by the
penitentiary chief clerk amounted to $30. This sum went to a woman
whose husband is serving a long sentence. The woman has three children
which she is supporting by being employed as a domestic.
A total of $774.72 was mailed out from the prison Thursday, and Friday
an additional $867.15 was sent out.
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