The Commission was constituted as follows: Fletcher W. Stites, Narberth, Chairman, Alfred E. Jones, Uniontown, Mrs. Martha P. Falconer, Darling P. O., Louis N. Robinson, Swarthmore, Albert H. Votaw, Philadelphia. On November 1, 1917, the members of the Commission met in the City of Philadelphia, for the purpose of organization and assigned the work of investigation which had been committed to it to the several members thereof. On July 1, 1918, the Commission retained Dr. George W. Kirchwey, of New York City, as its counsel to direct the subsequent course of the investigation and to aid the Commission with his counsel and advice. I. SCOPE OF INVESTIGATION. The Commission was fortunate in having in its personnel as thus constituted four members, including its counsel, who had through long experience and previous investigations acquired considerable information as to penal institutions and their management in this and other States. The investigation covered:-- (1) A careful study and analysis of the laws governing penal conditions and institutions in this Commonwealth; (2) An examination of the six correctional institutions directly controlled by the State, namely: The Eastern Penitentiary, at Philadelphia; The Western Penitentiary, at Pittsburgh; The New Central Penitentiary, at Bellefonte; The State Industrial Reformatory, at Huntingdon; The Pennsylvania Training School, at Morganza; The State Industrial Home for Women, at Muncy; (3) A similar examination of the Glen Mills Schools--the Girls’ Department, Sleighton Farms, at Darlington, and the Boys’ Department at Glen Mills; (4) A similar examination of the Philadelphia House of Correction and of the County Convict Prison at Holmesburg, Moyamensing Prison in Philadelphia, the Allegheny County Workhouse at Hoboken and many other county institutions; (5) A study of the constitution, organization and functions of the State Board of Public Charities, and specifically of those of its Committee on Lunacy; (6) A study of the powers and activities of the Prison Labor Commission instituted under the Act of June 1, 1918; (7) A careful survey of the entire history of the penal system of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania from the colonial period down to the present time, based on the historical research of Professor Harry E. Barnes of Clark University, Massachusetts; (8) An investigation of significant correctional institutions in several other States, notably in New York, New Jersey and Ohio. To supplement and enlarge the range of these inquiries and studies, the Commission was permitted to avail itself of the results of previous investigations conducted by two of its members; on the Employment and Compensation of Prisoners in Pennsylvania, by Professor Louis N. Robinson, as Secretary of the Penal Commission of 1913-1915, and on the county jails and workhouses, made periodically from 1914 to 1918 by Albert H. Votaw, as Secretary of the Pennsylvania Prison Society.