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17 Prison J. 289 (1937)

handle is hein.journals/prsjrnl17 and id is 1 raw text is: PART I PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE The Pennsylvania Prison Society will shortly celebrate its one hundred and fiftieth anniversary, it having been founded on May 5, 1787, in the year that the Convention met in Philadelphia and gave us our Federal Constitution. It has an honorable past and it is a source of much satisfaction to know that our fellow-member, Dr. Negley K. Teeters, Professor of Criminology at Temple Univer- sity, has written a history of its activities. We have reason to hope that this story of the Society's life will shortly be within the reach of our readers. Our Executive Secretary, Mr. Fraser, will speak in his report of the Society's work as it goes on from day to day-the visits of our staff of social workers to the prisons, and the help given by them to individual prisoners while still in prison and after their discharge. He will also speak of the good work done by our Vol- unteer lay visitors. And finally our Field Agent, Mr. Nelke, has promised to submit a short report telling of the excellent service he is rendering the Society in obtaining new members outside of Philadelphia and vicinity, the region covered by the Community Fund, of which, we are glad to add, the Pennsylvania Prison Society is a member agency. It will be for me, as President of the Society, to touch on some of the things that have happened during the past year and speak of the more important matters that will claim our attention during the coming twelvemonth. First let me remind you that the American Prison Association meets in Philadelphia during the second week in October. Recep- tion Committees are being formed to represent the City and the State, and we of the Pennsylvania Prison Society must do our part to make the conference a success. The papers that will be read and the discussions that will follow will show us what is being done in other parts of the country to improve prison conditions and put forward the causes that we have at heart. One of the subjects which we hope will be discussed will be the problem of the untried prisoner-the proper housing and care to be given the man or woman who is unable to obtain bail and who therefore must temporarily be incarcerated-if justice is to go for- ward and the community protected. What is the right sort of a House of Detention for a city such as Philadelphia? What form should it take and where should it be built? Presumably it should be located near the Courts in order to facilitate the production of the defendants when and as their cases come up for hearing and trial. At present we are far from solving the problem properly in Philadelphia. Untried prisoners are confined, as indeed they have been for many years in the past, in Moyamensing Prison at Tenth and Reed Streets, in quarters most unsuitable and under conditions that are lamentably short of what they ought to be. 289

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