Our present jail system is being weighed in the balances and found wanting. Many believe that state management of jails would be more economical, and conducive to better results than are now obtained. A state farm for the inebriate, with nourishing food, fresh air, sunshine and moral influences, and hard work for a good long term, would, it is believe, be a merciful solution of the distressing rounder problem. The Connecticut Prison Association was first organized as “The Prisoners’ Friends Corporation,” Tuesday, March 9, 1875, at a general meeting held in the lecture room of the Center Church, Hartford. Its first president was Judge Heman H. Barbour of Hartford, and at his death Rev. Dr. Joseph Cummings, president of Wesleyan College, was chosen president. December 8, 1876, a reorganization was affected under the name of “The Connecticut Prison Association.” Hon. Francis Wayland, dean of the Yale Law College, was then elected president, and continued in that office until the time of his death, January 9, 1904, more than twenty-seven years. Rev. H. M. Thompson, D.D., of Hartford, served the association as president from November 9, 1904, until October 27, 1910. Mr. John C. Taylor was secretary of the association from March 9, 1875, until his death, October 4, 1909, more than thirty-four years. The objects of the Connecticut Prison Association as expressed in the constitution are: 1. To benefit society by the reformation of criminals. 2. To assist prisoners in the work of self-reform. 3. To promote reformatory systems of prison management. 4. To aid discharged convicts in living honorably. 5. To co-operate in the prevention and repression of crime. Since its organization the association has extended a friendly hand to hundreds of discharged convicts, has had a part in advocating progressive laws and in forming an intelligent public opinion on the problems of criminology. SAVING GIRLS IN NEW YORK CITY In New York City is Waverly House, a temporary home for young women released on probation by the courts. The principal problem of the New York Probation Association, which maintains the House, is the rehabilitation of the young women convicted or arraigned for prostitution. In the second annual report of the association, Miss Maud Miner, the society’s secretary, writes: