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25 Prison J. 4 (1945)

handle is hein.journals/prsjrnl25 and id is 1 raw text is: INTRODUCTION By FLORENCE L. SANVILLE Menbcr Executive Committee, Pennsylvania Prison Society In January 1845 the first issue of THE PRISON JOU RNAL appeared as the Pennsylvania Journal of Prison Discipline and Phil- anthropy. Tiroughout the one hundred intervening years, through civil wars, and foreign wars, and cliaiging tides in thoughts and customs, this modest jouriial has not imssed an issue. The very fact of the existence of such a publication as THE PRISON JOURNAL for a century, without interruption, is ini itself iii(lication of a kind of vitality that merits study. It pre- sents a contiiuilg piture of a growing social concern charac- terized, with the passage of years by a wider application and more sharply defined objectives, that has a place in the records of human advancement. This centennial issue of 1945 will follow the usual plan of quarterly publication, but according to a scheme that will pre- sent the four volumes as an integrated whole. Its purpose is to present a review of the progress during a century in those special areas of penology in which the Pennsylvania Prison Soci- ety has been active. The first volume traces the develolmieit of' ideas oil the treatment of offenders, as reflected both in concepts of criiiiiiial justice procedure and in penological policies. The second volume will follow the course of prison reform through the years-in institutional plnlinig aild coiistructioii, prograis for classification and education of prisoiers, their social rehabilitation, and the vexed queslion of prison labor. The third volume will be devoted to an idea conceived and born i. the nineteenth ceiturv but nurtured only during recent years-viz, that the offender has certain basic rights that should be a recognized part of our social olanning. lice methods and the third degriee; methods of detention for trial, and the right of the accused to adequate defense-these, with a discussion of the civil rights of criminals will trace the development of a new estimate of human values. The subject of the last voluiie will stein direct lv froimi the third-THE OFFENI)ER AS PART OF SOCIETY. It will conitain a symposiiiuii of the relation of private agencies to the peculiar situatiolns ('reated by delinquency and criie in families and com- mniiities. Both the specialized Prisoners' Aid Societies and the more general w'elfare agelcies will have their role in this dis- clission. The very important reciprocal view-the comniimity's stake in this whole matter and its right to protection through 4

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