“This plan operates to the benefit of the defendant in several ways: It saves him his employment; it saves his family from humiliation and disgrace, as well as from the embarrassment incident to imprisonment; but more than all it saves him his self-respect. With but a single exception not one to whom this opportunity has been given and who has paid his fine in full has been in court a second time.” Of the suspended sentence and the withheld judgment Judge Collins says: “During the past year sentence has been suspended in two hundred and thirty-six cases and judgment withheld in thirty-four hundred and seventy-four. The majority of these were first offenders. In those cases where the judgment was suspended the court has had to set aside and commit the defendants in only two cases, and where the judgment has been withheld less than two per cent have been returned to court for a second or subsequent offense.” SIR EVELYN RUGGLES-BRISE REPORTS OFFICIALLY. London, April 7.—The English home office publishes the report of Sir Evelyn John Ruggles-Brise, chairman of the English prison commission and the British representative at the Prison Congress held at Washington last October. In his report Sir Evelyn commends American state prisons and reformatories, but condemns the system in vogue in city and county jails. He says that among the latter “many features linger which called forth the wrath of John Howard, the great English philanthropist, noted for his exertions in behalf of prison reform at the end of the eighteenth century. “Promiscuity, unsanitary conditions, the absence of supervision, idleness and corruption—these remain features of many places,” says the report. After describing some of the evils he saw Sir Evelyn concludes: “Until the abuses of the jail system are removed it is impossible for the United States to have assigned to her by general consent a place in the vanguard of progress in the domain of ‘la science penitentiare’.” MOVEMENT FOR NEW JERSEY WOMEN’S REFORMATORY The Woman’s Reformatory Commission of New Jersey has decided to ask the legislature to appropriate $200,000 to carry out the provisions of a law enacted in 1910 by which such a reformatory is established and its organization and administration provided for. This appropriation will be sufficient to secure a site and to erect the necessary buildings, consisting of six cottages to accommodate from twenty-five to thirty each, their estimated cost with equipment being $25,000 each. The site is to be in the country, approximately two hundred acres, which with necessary administrative and other buildings will cost $30,000. For sewage disposal $15,000 will be needed, and $5,000 will be necessary for preliminary expenses.