A paper presented at the fifty-first congress of the American Prison Association in 1921, surveying the conditions of 30 of the 52 county jails in Florida at the time.
BERT C. RILEY was director of the General Extension Division of the University of Florida.
Reprinted from the Independent of August 20, 1908, this paper, written by the originator of the whole juvenile court system of the United States, calls for the establishment of playgrounds and juvenile courts around the country in order to combat the increase in crime among youth at the time.
BEN B. LINDSEY presided over the Juvenile Court of Denver, Col.
Published in 1917 in the Journal of the American Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology, this article presents the legal work and legislation being made to combat usury in the state of Illinois at the time. It includes provisions for a proposed law for meeting the loan shark situation.
EARLE EDWARD EUBANK was professor of sociology, Young Men’s Christian Association College, Chicago.
Presents the work of the National Federation of Remedial Loan Associations, founded in 1909, which gathered information and published bulletins in an effort to drive the loan shark out of business, with the help of the Russell Sage Foundation’s Division of Remedial Loans.
MALCOLM W. DAVIS, Division of Remedial Loans, Russell Sage Foundation
This 1909 paper traces data on Chicago’s South Park Playgrounds to argue that the presence of parks and playgrounds in a neighborhood correlates to a decrease in the number of cases of juvenile delinquency.
ALLEN BURNS, Department of Child Hygiene, Russell Sage Foundation
A volume of the Topeka Improvement Survey, a survey of health conditions in Topeka, Kansas, in 1914, this report studies the labor conditions of the industrial trades found in Topeka, particularly the automotive industry. Published with A Public Health Survey of Topeka by Franz Schneider, Jr., Delinquency and Corrections by Zenas L. Potter, and Municipal Administration in Topeka by D. O. Decker.
ZENAS L. POTTER, Department of Surveys and Exhibits, Russell Sage Foundation
A volume of the Topeka Improvement Survey, a survey of health conditions in Topeka, Kansas, in 1914, this report examines the courts, police departments, and city and county jails. Juvenile delinquency and preventative work are explored. Published with A Public Health Survey of Topeka by Franz Schneider, Jr., Municipal Administration in Topeka by D. O. Decker, and Industrial Conditions in Topeka by Zenas L. Potter.
ZENAS L. POTTER, Department of Surveys and Exhibits, Russell Sage Foundation
A volume of the Topeka Improvement Survey, a survey of health conditions in Topeka, Kansas, in 1914, this report focuses on the sanitary conditions of the city, as well as the organization and work of the city health department. Published with Delinquency and Corrections in Topeka by Zenas L. Potter, Municipal Administration in Topeka by D. O. Decker, and Industrial Conditions in Topeka by Zenas L. Potter.
FRANZ SCHNEIDER, JR. was sanitarian at the Department of Surveys and Exhibits of the Russell Sage Foundation.
Presented at the fifty-first congress of the American Prison Association in 1921, this pamphlet attempts to develop proper, universal plans for a detention home for women. 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 Plans for a Model Jail by R. W. Zimmerman.
MAXWELL HYDE, architect, New York
Presented at the fifty-first congress of the American Prison Association in 1921, this paper presents a practice adopted by Wisconsin at the turn of the century that involved finding employment for county jail prisoners with farmers and other employers in the immediate vicinity of the jail. Printed with How the Vermont Plan Reforms Jail Prisoners by Frank H. Tracy.
HORNELL HART, Iowa State University
