It will be seen from this survey that Pennsylvania is not making rapid progress in improved penal legislation; nor is it likely that we can hope for better things until some future Legislature will see fit to empower the Board of Charities or a specially appointed commission of expert penologists to devise a carefully articulated and homogeneous system of penal and reformatory institutions for the State. Such a system should provide for a radical change in the construction, management and internal administration of the county prisons; it should include a state system of workhouses, a woman’s reformatory, a central penitentiary for recidivists, and a favorably located institution for criminals suffering from tuberculosis or dementia, where they could receive skillful treatment; it should make a strict separation between habitual criminals and first offenders, between young delinquents and those of mature years; and it should everywhere introduce approved reformatory methods, and make it possible to give those in confinement ample indoor and outdoor employment. It might, of course, be objected that a system so carefully planned and wrought out would be too expensive; but let it never be forgotten that in the end it is far better for the State, and indeed cheaper, to make _men_ than to arrest, try and support criminals, and suffer the results of their depredations. _Philadelphia._ J. F. OHL, _Chairman of the Committee on Legislation, Pennsylvania Prison Society_. SYNOPSIS OF THE EIGHTY-FIRST ANNUAL REPORT OF THE INSPECTORS OF THE STATE PENITENTIARY FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA FOR THE YEAR 1910. It is a pamphlet of eighty pages, bearing on the reverse of the title-page this inscription: “Printed and Bound at the Eastern State Penitentiary, Philadelphia, 1911.” There were in the Penitentiary on the first of January, 1910, as follows, _viz._: White Males, 1,157; White Females, 21; Total White 1,178 Colored Males, 332; Colored Females, 17; Total Colored 349 ----- 1,527 Received during the year: White Males, 310; White Females, 4; Total White 314 Colored Males, 89; Colored Females, 6; Total Colored 95 ----- 409 Remaining at the close of the year as follows: White Males, 1,073; White Females, 18; Total White 1,091 Colored Males, 301; Colored Females, 15; Total Colored 316 ----- 1,407 The number at same date last year 1,527