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| VOLUME I, No. 6. | JUNE, 1911 |
A MONTHLY PERIODICAL, PUBLISHED BY THE
NATIONAL PRISONERS’ AID ASSOCIATION
AT 135 EAST 15th STREET, NEW YORK CITY.
| TEN CENTS A COPY. | SEVENTY-FIVE CENTS A YEAR |
| Page | |
| The National Conference | 1 |
| Report of Committee on Lawbreakers | 2 |
| The Suppression of Moral Defectives | 7 |
| The Abolition of the Jail | 8 |
| Mental Defects and Delinquency | 9 |
| Treatment of the Mental Defective who is also Delinquent | 13 |
| Placing Misdemeanants on Probation | 14 |
The national conference of charitiesand correction was held in Boston fromJune 7 to June 14. The committee onlawbreakers had the opening session, onWednesday. Three section meetingswere held by the committee during conferenceweek.
The Review prints in this issue manyof the papers prepared for the sessionsof the “lawbreakers,” as they were facetiouslycalled. Other papers will beprinted next month. This is a smallmonthly, and some papers have beencrowded out.
The keynotes of the “lawbreakers”sections were: (1) Need for the abolitionof local and county jails as prisonsfor convicted offenders and theestablishment in their places of state districtworkhouses or houses of correction;(2) full and impartial considerationby the national conference of theproblem of prison labor; (3) more rationaland adequate treatment of thementally defective delinquent; (4) theimperative need of a change in our treatmentof misdemeanants, especially vagrants,inebriates and offenders under theage of 21; (5) the necessity of standardizingthe methodology of probationwork; (6) the need of far greater organizationof parole work; (7) the necessityof developing crime statistics andstatistics regarding offenders so thatrecords may be of real value.
Many other notes were struck. Thespirit of the sessions was