Presented at the fifty-first congress of the American Prison Association in 1921, this paper presents the structure of the Westchester County Penitentiary, whose prisoners are employed on the farm the penitentiary rests on. It argues that, instead of being a liability to the county, the prison is an asset, and that, instead of being a place of punishment, it is a training school that returns its wards to society as better men because of their experiences on the farm. Key to this system is that the prisoners are self-governing through a method of classification and rewards that is outlined in detail in this paper.

V. EVERIT MACY was commissioner of public welfare, Westchester County, N.Y.

An analysis of how organized charities can work efficiently to best treat families in need in regards to health, education, employment, recreation, and spiritual development.

PORTER R. LEE was general secretary of the Philadelphia Society for Organizing Charity

Presented at the fifty-first congress of the American Prison Association in 1921, this pamphlet attempts to develop proper, universal plans for a model jail. Arguing that each prison would have specific building requirements and characteristics, the author presents several well-established canons of architecture and building which should be followed in any jail, emphasizing humane conditions and required needs. Printed with A Departmental Plan for a Detention Home for Delinquent Women by Maxwell Hyde.

R. W. ZIMMERMAN, prison architect, Chicago

A volume of the Correction and Prevention papers prepared for the Eighth International Prison Congress in 1910, this book is an account of correctional institutions. Most of the book is devoted to reformatories and prisons in the northern United States. It includes papers on the evolution and reforms of the prison system, the methods in which offenders are trained for responsible citizenship, and prison conditions for women.

CHARLES RICHMOND HENDERSON was professor of sociology in the University of Chicago and commissioner for the United States on the International Prison Commission.

A volume of the Correction and Prevention papers prepared for the Eighth International Prison Congress in 1910, published by the Charities Publication Committee of the Russell Sage Foundation. From the preface: “This volume is designed especially to furnish reliable information to the delegates in attendance upon the International Prison Congress with reference to the progress of work for neglected children in the United States. The subject is studied in its concrete form, and the effort is made to give a comprehensive view of what is being undertaken in the United States for the prevention of juvenile delinquency, and, thereby, of adult delinquency. … The study in Part Three, relating to Cottage and Congregate Institutions, has been made by the Child-Helping Department of the Russell Sage Foundation, for the special benefit of boards of trustees who are contemplating the building of new institutions for children or the re-organization of old ones. It is accompanied by plans for a children’s cottage with outside sleeping porches designed by the author and executed by Robert W. Gardner, Architect, of New York City.

HASTINGS H. HART was director of the Department of Child-Helping of the Russell Sage Foundation.

A paper read before the children's section of the National Conference of Charities and Correction in Baltimore in May of 1915. Published by the Department of Child-Helping of the Russell Sage Foundation.

WILLIAM J. DOHERTY was second deputy commissioner in the department of public charities of New York City.

A investigation into the scope of industrial co-operation in New England, begun in 1907. Industrial co-operation in this study was "limited to the associations for the production and distribution of the immediate necessities of life."

JAMES FORD was instructor in social ethics at Harvard University.

Reprinted from the American Physical Education Review by the Department of Child Hygiene of the Russell Sage Foundation, this report was read at the State Teachers’ Association of Lincoln, Nebraska, in 1909. It asks the question: are inter-high-school athletic contests beneficial or destructive to the schools participating?

EARL CLINE, Principal High School, Sidney, Nebraska

A study of measuring children’s reading ability, this book, published in 1921, presents a scale for the measurement of silent reading, the Picture Supplement Scale 1, developed by the Russell Sage Foundation in order to determine which methods of teaching are most successful in literacy retention.

MARY AYRES BURGESS, Columbia University

This report, prepared by the Charity Organization Department of the Russell Sage Foundation in 1912, is an account of the methods of exchanges, charity indexes cataloguing relief and resources in an area, then in operation in the United States. It comprises of the author’s research around the oldest exchange conducted by the Boston Associated Charities, a list of the reasons behind the growth in interest around exchanges at the time, and an account of their administration and office details.

MARGARET F. BYINGTON was associate director of the Charity Organization Department of the Russell Sage Foundation.