[Transcribers' notes are placed after the text.] VOL. VIII. TERMS:--ONE DOLLAR A YEAR IN ADVANCE. NO. II. 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. "The separation of one prisoner from another is the only sound basis on which a reformatory (prison) discipline can be established with any reasonable hope of success."--_Fifth Report of Inspectors of English Prisons._ APRIL, 1853. PHILADELPHIA: E. C. AND J. BIDDLE, SOUTHWEST CORNER OF FIFTH AND MINOR STREETS. LONDON: CHARLES GILPIN. 1853. Isaac Ashmead, Printer. CONTENTS OF NO. II. Art. I.--Moral and Religious Instruction of Convicts, 53 II.--Report of the Discipline and Management of the 61 Convict-Prisons, and Disposal of Convicts, (England,) III.--Sources and Checks of Juvenile Delinquency, 70 IV.--Pennsylvania Penitentiaries, 78 V.--Should Convicts be Received into the State Lunatic 82 Hospital at Harrisburg? VI.--Report of the Condition of the New Jersey State Prison, 89 VII.--An Extraordinary Document, 93 VIII.--A Philanthropic Perplexity, 96 MISCELLANEOUS NOTICES.