VOL. XV. TERMS:—ONE DOLLAR A YEAR IN NO. 1. ADVANCE. THE JOURNAL OF PRISON DISCIPLINE AND =Philanthropy.= PUBLISHED QUARTERLY UNDER THE DIRECTION OF “THE PHILADELPHIA SOCIETY FOR ALLEVIATING THE MISERIES OF PUBLIC PRISONS,” INSTITUTED 1787. JANUARY, 1860. PHILADELPHIA: E. C. & J. BIDDLE & CO. 1860. PRINTED BY HENRY B. ASHMEAD. CONTENTS OF NO. 1. PAGE. ART. I.— New Gaol for the City of Baltimore 1 II.— Texas Penitentiary 7 III.— Criminal Statistics of England and Wales for 1858 17 IV.— Reformation of Female Discharged Convicts 25 V.— Irish Convict Prisons 36 BRIEF NOTICES. Escapes and Pardons 40 Early Crime 43 Compromising with Rogues 45 Consumption of Intoxicating Drinks 46 Prisons and Prisoners in South Carolina ib. Annual Census of the Philadelphia County Prison 47 A Quarter’s Police Work in New York ib. Alabama State Prison ib. New York Prison Association 48 Deliberate Murder by a Boy under Nine Years of age ib. Distribution of Labor in Paris ib. New Jersey State Prison ib. [Illustration: NEW JAIL FOR THE CITY OF BALTIMORE, MD. THOS. & JAS. M. DIXON, ARCH’TS. ] [Illustration: REFERENCE: A, vestibule; B, rooms for the warden and his deputies; C, guard room; D, cells; E, galleries; F, corridors; G, sink rooms; H, boiler house; I, clerk’s office; J, gate keeper’s room; K, clerk’s vestibule; L, entrance gateway; M, parlor; N, hall; O, passage; P, dining room; Q, kitchen; R, store room; S, pantry; T, privies; U, kitchen yard; V, office yard; Y, vestibule to warden’s residence. ] [Illustration: NEW JAIL FOR THE CITY OF BALTIMORE.—VIEW OF WARDEN’S RESIDENCE, LODGE, AND ENTRANCE GATEWAY. _Thos. & Jas. M. Dixon, Arch’ts_ ] JOURNAL OF