Show i A CONVENT ron roy or congress as etwas IL was styled of gentlemen interested in the management and discipline of prisons was recently heiti heitl in cincinnati at which delegates were present from all Lall parts of the union speeches were mado made madeko n consideration and papers read some of which were c communicated 0 by gentlemen pro prominently min connected with the prison systems of england and denmark or dr wines of the now rork york krhon association gave a general view of the prison system of the united states he asted stated that there were forty state prisons twenty fave five bouses houses of correction and about two thousand county jails in the country besides a large number of station houses bouses and lockups lock ups thattie that the average number of persons confined in in the 6 bbate tate prisons was fifteen thousand in the houses of correction from five to aix alx hou thousand bou sad from furty to fafty fifty thousand in the common jails and scud perhaps as many luany more in other places of detention he lie adduced evidence showing that crime had bad indrea increased zed durin during the las last tAen ten years but not disproportionately ora with the increase of the llon tion 5 it would ouid be difficult imp impossible to ninda finda nind find a subject more worthy tha tho attention andl consideration of philan th ropic piG and enlightened minds than prison discipline a and the reformation of or the criminal population of the boua country tny try much has beebi accomplished for this class since the days in which thebe i ua zo Elow howard howand alto aizo commenced hib hia labors iu ja their behalf in europe JEu rope but bu much ye to bedone be done before prisons cau can tsu be regarded rega do rued as places in and permanent reformation of Tl elous cloua maybe may ba effected in howards Howard ls days prisons mere were regarded merely aa as places pl places aces acea of confinement the occupants oc of chich be subjected to dorn torn fend fenU rell rill and al punishment only for the evil the they ther had committed commuted he formation was not considered onside red theat the pillory stocks soll solitary tary confinement physical of kinds kinai some of tha the most brutalizing land degrading were the means meang of punishment resorted to and we stilt keai occasionally even in this country of a recourse being had bad to some of these relics relies of or a barbarous age ia thau thai treatment ant ent of criminals happily such instances are rare for with the development aid nid and ard expansion of thought reform and a more enlightened and humane policy has bas gradual gradually y crept into chis this department of human affairs ask well weil as into many others until prisons as institutions more for the reform reformation than the punish ment nent of the vi clous olous some yome hundred and twenty thousand human beings const constantly antly confined as criminals ia in this country alone la ii a somewhat significant comment commentary on present day civilization and av while h ga e christiana and may mourn bueil fact their efforts 0 to o bring bilog about a change will vill never be effectual so lon ion long iong g as they are directed to the re formation of the criminal only abys A ays tem term tern the tendency of which is to maice make the fey fay fayr enormously wealthy while the masses are kept in poverty po verty the aggregate of which i continually increasing larto blame biame for the pauperism and fo for r moat most of the C chime crime phat hat exists th that system prevails pre pro valia vaila throughout chilstedt chrls chris stent stert co dom jt jhc idill s all ail very good to teach trades and to educate them but the course pursued in this respect is not productive of the greatest amount abaouat of good oc id of which it is capable for the branches of trade taught a such places ar are generally th those ase most poorly paid for and wid if proficiency is acquired by parties while in afi confinement there they eliad such s a a it poor pooi chanca chance for a comfort able abie livelihood by follo following whis when wb en re pleased the tr niles Ailes thus learned that chatin in f the of ln instances instance stance they prefer arefe crims crime idle idie idleness ness aila ana plen pien plenty W t to indaHl ry and poverty but bat criminals thero theia trades la Is lifee jilce removing the exter rai mal byrn otonas of disease oise dise while walle 18 cause hidden bidden from frow observation still remains master of the citadel criminality of whatever name mame rasy hafely be regarded as a gyn syn lipto of a diseased ateer or ey stem em of or society regenerate ao clety andri ao d place it on a bound and correct baglai and the and impurities which now DOW disfigure its surface anvill disappear for moir their cause wll will be removed uhle thle IB Is the great problem of today to day as tail as of nearly neatly WJ ajl timp in the che best eldda of the tho earlb have devoted their energies to it in muse their labors and efforts have not been concentrated the sola eola this problem has been reserved for the citizens of the kingdom of god glod and co operation the united concentrated faith and effort of a whole aaboe people will be the means of bringing aboff abo it a revolution and remedy in thia this as in every other department of 0 human buman affons in which evil iq to be found |