Page of 22d Report. Howard's Wish in Regard to the Classes of Persons who should be committed to Peniten- tiaries. His Opinion on Capital Punishment. His Motive in Part for assisting in the Erection of Penitentiaries. His Letter of Resignation as one of the Commissioners for Howard's Opinion in Regard to the Persons who should build Penitentiaries. His Opinion Solitary and Separate Imprisonment how far introduced, how far altered, and how differ- ent at Wakefield, Preston, and Pentonville, especially in Case of Juvenile Offenders,....35 Experiment on the Separate System at Milbank Prison, in London, commencing in 1840, ..46 Injurious Effects of Separate Confinement in the General Prison for Scotland, at Perth,....49 OF THE Prison Discipline Society. ARTICLE 1. This Society shall be called the PRISON DISCIPLINE SOCIETY. ART. 2. It shall be the object of this Society to promote the improvement of Public Prisons. ART. 3. It shall be the duty of this Society to take measures for effecting the formation of one or more Prison Discipline Societies in each of the United States, and to co-operate with all such Societies in accomplishing the object specified in the second article of this Constitution. ART. 4. Any Society, having the same object in view, which shall become auxiliary to this, and shall contribute to its funds, shall thereby secure for the Prisons, in the State where such Society is located, special attention from this Society. ART. 5. Each subscriber of two dollars, annually, shall be a Member. ART. 6. Each subscriber of thirty dollars, at one time, shall be a Member for Life. ART. 7. Each subscriber of ten dollars, annually, shall be a Director. ART. 8. Each subscriber of one hundred dollars, or who shall by one additional payment increase his original subscription to one hundred dollars, shall be a Director for Life. ART. 9. The officers of this Society shall be a President, as many Vice-Fresi dents as shall be deemed expedient, a Treasurer, and a Secretary, to be chosen annually, and a Board of Managers, whose duty it shall be to conduct the business of the Society. This Board shall consist of six clergymen and six laymen, of whom nine shall reside in the city of Boston, and five shall constitute a quorum. Every Minister of the Gospel, who is a member of this Society, shall be entitled to meet and deliberate with the Board of Managers. The Managers shall call special meetings of the Society, and fill such vacan cies as may occur by death or otherwise, in their own Board. ART. 10. The President, Vice-Presidents, Treasurer, and Secretary, shall be, ex officio, Members of the Board of Managers. ART. 11. Directors shall be entitled to meet and vote at all meetings of the Board of Managers. ART. 12. The annual meetings of this Society shall be held in Boston, on the week of the General Election, when, besides choosing the officers as specified in the ninth article, the accounts of the Treasurer shall be presented, and the proceedings of the foregoing year reported. ART. 13. The Managers shall meet at such time and place, in the city of Boston, as they shall appoint. ART. 14. At the meetings of the Society, and of the Managers, the President, or, in his absence, the Vice-President first on the list then present, and in the absence of the President and of all the Vice-Presidents, such Member as shall be appointed for that purpose, shall preside. ART. 15. The Secretary, in concurrence with two of the Managers, or, in the absence of the Secretary, any three of the Managers, may call special meetings of the Board. ART. 16. The minutes of every meeting shall be signed by the Chairman or Secretary. ART. 17. The Managers shall have the power of appointing such persons as have rendered essential services to the Society either Members for Life or Directors for Life. ART. 18. No alteration shall be made in this Constitution except by the Socie tv, at an annual meeting, on the recommendation of the Board of Managers. ANNUAL MEETING. THE Twenty-Second Annual Business Meeting of the Prison Discipline So ciety was held in Park Street Vestry, on Monday, May 24, at 3 o'clock, P. M. A quorum being present, the Rev. Dr. JENKS, the oldest Vice-President then present, took the chair, and opened the meeting with prayer. The Treasurer, the Hon. SAMUEL A. ELIOT, read his Report, and the Report of the Auditor, AMOS A. LAWRENCE, Esq., certifying to its correctness. The Report of the Treasurer, as thus read and audited, was accepted. A committee was then appointed to distribute and collect the votes for the officers of the ensuing year. Hon. DANIEL SAFFORD and T. R. MARVIN, Esq. were appointed on this committee. Hon. THEODORE LYMAN was unanimously elected President, in the place of Rev. FRANCIS WAYLAND, D. D., resigned. The Vice-Presidents of the preceding year were unanimously reelected, with the exception of Rev. Dr. BOLLES, deceased. The Hon. SAMUEL A. ELIOT was unanimously elected one of the Vice-Presidents; he having gratuitously served the Society as Treasurer for three years, and his resignation having been tendered and accepted, and a vote of thanks having been presented to him by the Board of Managers, accompanied with a grateful letter from Dr. JENKS, for his faithful services. The following gentlemen were elected to fill the other offices: R. S. STORRS, A. H. VINTON, JAMES MEANS, DANIEL SAFFORD, BARON STOW, DANIEL SHARP, SAMUEL LAWRENCE, H. M. WILLIS, SILAS AIKEN, S. K. LoTHROP, JOHN R. ADAN, AMOS A. LAWRENCE, Managers. WILLIAM W. STONE, Treasurer. LOUIS DWIGHT, Secretary. The meeting was then closed with prayer by the Rev. Mr. LOTHROP. Mr. STONE, having been notified of his election, asked to be excused, and CHARLES H. MILLS, Esq. was afterwards elected by the Board of Managers to fill the vacancy. The Twenty-Second Annual Public Meeting of the Prison Discipline Society was held at the Tremont Temple, on Tuesday, May 25, 1847, at 11 o'clock, A. M. The President of the Society, the Hon. THEODORE LYMAN, took the chair, and called on the Rev. MARK TUCKER, D. D., of Wethersfield, Conn., who opened the meeting by reading the thirteenth chapter of the First of Corinthians, and offering prayer. The Hon. SAMUEL A. ELIOT read the Report of the Treasurer. The Secretary read extracts from the Report of the Board of Managers. The Rev. Dr. JENKS offered the first resolution, for the acceptance of the Report, which he accompanied with remarks on the importance of Prison Sabbath Schools. CHARLES SUMNER, Esq., moved that the Report of the Board of Managers be laid on the table, while a Report was presented by him, as chairman of a committee, appointed at the last anniversary; which motion prevailed, and the Report was read, and led to a long and earnest debate, which extended through several successive evenings, and the Report of the committee was finally laid on the table. At the close of the last meeting, the Twenty-Second Annual Report of the Board of Managers was referred to the Board to be printed. ANNUAL REPORT. THE board of managers of the Prison Discipline Society, in presenting their Twenty-Second Annual Report, acknowledge the goodness and mercy of God. They also notice with sadness and sorrow the sudden and recent death of a long-tried and highly-esteemed friend and benefactor, MARTIN BRIMMER, Esq. He was prompt and cheerful in his benevolence. He was kind and conciliatory in his manners. He was a firm and steadfast friend of this Society. We feel our own loss, and we sympathize with his family and friends. While we thus mourn for him, we do not find that death has made its usual inroads upon those associated with us. We thank the Lord for the life he has given and preserved, and for the life and health of our friends and benefactors. This unusual exemption from death, however, during the past year, is no proof that another year may not summon some of us from this into the eternal world. In faithfulness and truth, in love and good-will, in patience, forbearance, forgiveness, and hope, let us continue our labors. There are many sons and daughters of poverty and want, of vice and crime, and bewildered intellect, whom we may relieve and benefit. Let us aid and assist each other in doing good. We need all the life, and strength, and health, and character we have, and all the aid, support, and counsel, we can receive from others. Let us enter upon the duties, therefore, of the new year, with a sincere desire to shun the dangers of the past, reaching forward earnestly together for the improvements of the future. The arrangement of this Report is as follows: American Documents on Prisons for 1846. Tabular View of American Penitentiaries in 1846. Libraries, Intellectual Improvement, and Common Education, in Penitentiaries. Inequality of Punishments. Reformatory Effects of Prison Discipline. Extracts from Howard on Lazarettos, expressing his Opin ion on Important Points in Prison Discipline. VISIT TO PRISONS IN EUROPE IN 1846. Prisons in Liverpool. Prison at Wakefield. Crowded Night-rooms of the Prisons in London. Cases of Extreme Youth in Milbank Prison, London. Extracts from Lord Brougham's Speech before Parliament, on Juvenile Delinquents. Extract from the Duke of Richmond's Speech before Parliament. Pentonville Prison, (two and a half miles north of London.) Experiment on the Separate System at Milbank Prison. Results of Separate Confinement at the General Prison of Scotland, at Perth. Congress on Prison Discipline at Frankfort. List of Officers, Life Directors, and Life Members. Subscriptions and Donations for the Year ending May 1847. APPENDIX. Statistical Tables of American Penitentiaries. Series of Numbers on Prison Discipline, from 1 to 10. AMERICAN DOCUMENTS FOR TWENTY-SECOND REPORT. DOCUMENTS OF 1846 AND 1847. State of Maine. - Twenty-sixth Legislature. Senate Document, No. 9. Annual Report of the Warden of the State Prison. Duodecimo; pages 9. Also, House Document, No. 12. Annual Report of Inspectors of Maine State Prison. Duodecimo; pages 13. June, 1846. State of Massachusetts. - Senate Document, No. 7. Doc |