Produced by Larry B. Harrison, Wayne Hammond and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.) TERMS:--ONE DOLLAR A YEAR IN ADVANCE. THE PENNSYLVANIA JOURNAL OF PRISON DISCIPLINE AND PHILANTHROPY. PUBLISHED QUARTERLY UNDER THE DIRECTION OF “THE PHILADELPHIA SOCIETY FOR ALLEVIATING THE MISERIES OF PUBLIC PRISONS,” INSTITUTED 1787. VOL. IV.--NO. II. APRIL 1849. PHILADELPHIA: E. C. AND J. BIDDLE, SOUTHWEST CORNER OF FIFTH AND MINOR STREETS. CONTENTS OF NO. II. ART. I.--HOUSES OF REFUGE, 49 II.--MORTALITY AND CRIME, 63 III.--STATE PENITENTIARIES, 70 NOTICES. No. 1.--Institutions for the Insane, 79 2.--The precise present character of transportation explained, with suggestions by Ignotus, 86 3.--Statistics of Truantry and of Juvenile Vagrancy in the City of Boston, 88 4.--The London Christian Observer’s notice of Rev. Mr. Field’s work on the Advantages of the Separate System of Imprisonment, 92 5.--Kentucky State Penitentiary, 93 6.--An Inquiry into the Alleged Tendency of the Separation of Convicts, one from the other, to Produce Disease and Derangement, 94 7.--New York Eye and Ear Infirmary, 95 8.--Shelter for Colored Orphans, 95 9.--Paupers and Prisoners in Cincinnati, 95 10.--Insane Asylum in North Carolina, 95 11.--Corrupt Police, 96 CONSTITUTION OF THE “_Philadelphia Society for Alleviating the Miseries of Public Prisons_.”