ANNUAL REPORT OF THE BOARD OF MANAGERS OF THE PRISON DISCIPLINE SOCIETY, BOSTON, JUNE 2, 1826. FIFTH EDITION. Boston: T. R. MARVIN, PRINTER, 32, CONGRESS STREET. Extract from Gov. Wolcott's Message, May, 1826 Extract from the report of the Commissioners of the Connecticut Juvenile Delinquents in Massachusetts Extract from Mr. Thompson's Speech to the House of Representa- SUBJECTS OF INQUIRY CONCERNING PRISONS. 1. Situation. Is it near a town, river, or other buildings? What is the height, length, &c. of the wall? What is the expense, design, number, of the Prison Buildings; and when were they erected? 2. Interior of the Yard. Is it dry, paved, watered and drained? whitewashed? Privies and drains cleansed? Are the walls 3. Day Rooms. What is the size, number, mode of airing, lighting, warming, cleansing, furnishing, fastening? 4. Night Cells. What is the size, number, mode of airing, lighting, warming, cleansing, furnishing, fastening? 5. Hospital. What is the salary and duty of the Physician, and how is he supplied with medicine? What is the character and compensation of the nurse? What is the number of deaths; and of what diseases? 6. Officers. Inpectors-their number, duty, mode of appointment, and compensation? Keeper--his name, residence, former occupation, character, duties, compensation, time of holding his office? Turnkeys-their number, duty, salary? 7. Prisoners. Their number, age, colour, sex, nativity, crime, sentence, frequency of conviction? 8. Admission of Prisoners. As to cleanliness, clothing, fees and garnish? 9. Admission of Prisoners' friends. Who are admitted, at what hours, and under what circumstances? 10 Admission of Visitors. On what condition and by whom attended? 11. Moral Treatment. Classification, instruction, and employment. 12. Punishments. By solitary confinement, chains, stripes, or all of them? 13. Religious Instruction. Of the chapel-its size and regulatious? Of the chaplain-his character, residence, duties, and compensation? Of the Bible-number, mode of distribution; effects, whether good or bad; perused or neglected; preserved or destroyed? 14. Exercise. When, where, and under what circumstances? 15. Food. Its quantity, quality, mode and time of distribution? 16. Clothing. How much, by whom supplied, how often changed and cleansed? 17. Cleanliness. Is it daily, are soap and towels furnished? Can the prison dress be washed? How often do they shave and cut their hair? Is there a bath, and how often is it used? 18. Discharge of the Prisoners. At what time in the day? With what means of providing for themselves? With clothing or money? 19. Vices of Prisoners. What are they? Any drunkenness, gambling, profane swearing, fighting, combinations against society, insurrections, false keys, weapons of death? Any rum, cards, instruments of mischief, newspapers, plates to make counterfeit bills, or dies and presses to alter them? Any counterfeit coin and moulds? Any good or bad mouey? Any cases of punishment for unnatural crime? How are these things done without discovery? How are prohibited articles obtained? What is the effect of the system on the character? Where are they concealed? |