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| VOLUME I, No. 5. | MAY, 1911 | ||||
THE REVIEW | |||||
| 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 | ||||
| E. F. Waite, President. | E. A. Fredenhagen, | G. E. Cornwall, | |||
| F. Emory Lyon, Vice President. | Chairman Ex. Committee. | Member Ex. Committee. | |||
| O. F. Lewis, Secretary | James Parsons, | Albert Steelman, | |||
| and Editor Review. | Member Ex. Committee. | Member Ex. Committee. | |||
| A H. Votaw, Member Ex. Committee. | |||||
| Page | |
| Prisoners Afield | 1 |
| Chicago House of Correction | 5 |
| The American Jail Problem | 8 |
| In the Prisoners’ Aid Field | 11 |
| Events in Brief | 13 |
Warden J. T. Gilmour, Central Prison, Ontario, Canada.
[Stenographic report of Dr. Gilmour’s address at the annual meeting of the New Jersey State Charities Aid andPrison Reform Association, April 1, 1911. Though The Review guards jealously its space, having but sixteenpages monthly, we are sure our readers will agree with us that the space filled by this article is well filled.—Editor]
When we speak of criminals, we arevery apt to picture in our mind’s eyethe great criminals, those who commitatrocious crimes. But that class formsbut a very small percentage of everyprison population, and the methods ofdealing with this class are much moreclear and definite than dealing with themuch larger class that are not quite sodangerous to society. When we speakof criminals we are apt to think of themen masse as a congregation of a fewhundred or a few thousand m