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2 Prison J. 1 (1922)

handle is hein.journals/prsjrnl2 and id is 1 raw text is: THE PRISON JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE SCIENCE OF PENOLOGY Published Quarterly by THE PENNSYLVANIA PRISON SOCIETY (Organized 1787) 119 South Fourth St., Philadelphia, Pa. This Number (Fifteen Cents) Fifty Cents a Year (Application for entry as Second-class Matter will be made at the Post Orice at Philadelphia) EDITORIAL REMARKS In issuing Number 1 of Volume II of THE PRISON JOURNAL, we desire to extend sincere thanks to our subscribers and patrons who hail from almost every part of the United States, and from Norway in the east to Japan in the west, from Canada in the north to Cuba in the south. We have also been en- couraged, by many cordial expressions and tokens of appreciation, to continue this journalistic effort. It is quite possible that some courteous readers may entertain the opinion that this number contains a surplus of knocks. Well, we do not enjoy the exercise of knocking, and we are also aware that in the process of finding fault we too often fail to mention the redeeming qualities. Possibly all correctional institutions have some features worthy of commendation. In this number there will be found some criticism of the penalties inflicted in military prisons for misdemeanors, and also of corporal punishment when inflicted in any prison. We are not convinced that such methods are reformatory. According to the militaristic creed, The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The military scheme is not sufficiently elastic to deal equitably with conscientious objectors, nearly all of whom have now been released; with independent thinkers, some of whom are still suffering from giving expression to their opinions or from belonging to or- ganizations which hold views contrary to the ideas of the War Department. We are not defending them from the charges brought against them, but we do doubt the efficiency of the measures deemed necessary to bring them under subjection or to change their opinions. What shall be done with them? Have we any constructive plan of dealing with them to suggest? We realize the difficulties of the problem. We may plead for rational methods of treatment, but what are rational methods? VOLUME II, No. I JANUARY, 1922

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