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31 Prison J. 1 (1951)

handle is hein.journals/prsjrnl31 and id is 1 raw text is: One-Hundred Sixty-Fourth Annual Report Pennsylvania Prison Society January 1951 Nineteen-hundred fifty will probably go down in history as a year of indecision. The average citizen is bedeviled with questions to which he cannot find a satisfactory answer. The man on the street is confused and frightened and has lost his sense of direction. In the words of Isaiah, The people cry peace, peace and there is no peace. Not even the Pennsylvania Prison Society, which has weathered the hazards of violent social change for 164 years, has escaped the impact of uncertainty and indeci- sion. Questions have arisen as to how adequately its program meets the requirements of a new day? The Society has welcomed this challenge and given thoughtful study to the answer. This study will be mentioned later in this report. We wish to state here simply that our belief in the one fixed and unchangeable aspect of its program, which has stood the test of all the years, has been reaffirmed,-namely, service to the individual. We are prompted, therefore, to present as the first part of this 164th Annual Report an account of individual service. Case Work From time to time it has been our custom to review the Agency casework programl in the annual report. This has not been done since January, 1941. As this report marks completiOn of another decade of progress it se-ems appropriate now to preselnt an outline of the specific services presently offered and then to comment on how these services have developed in the past ten years. A. Services in the Prison 1. Sponsorship Parole regulations require a prisoner to have an approved job, home and sponsor in order to be released on parole. The agency offers sponsorship and assists men accepted for this service with problems encountered in parole planning. A decision is reached while the man is in prison, but sponsorship begins upon release md eontinumes (hring the first year of parole. 2. Parole Planning A man who may have obtained sponsorship elsewhere or who is planning for parole outside the area served by the agency may be accepted for this service, which involves help with the prob- lems encountered in planning for parole. This may consist Of referral to agencies in this community or in that to which the man is planning to return. The client is encouraged to use these resources as well as his own toward the completion of his parole plan. 1

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