Text Appearing Before Image: who speak grateful words in acknowledgment ofthe timely assistance which the State so gener-ously gives. Seven hundred and forty-two women have beenprovided for according to their necessities, and, .while a few are frequent visitors, it is only fair tostate that very many have applied but once. THE NEW YORK STATE PRISON FOR WOMENAT AUBURN Mrs. Anna Welshe, a woman of great charmand personal attractiveness, has charge ofthe Womens Prison at Auburn, New York.In her own quiet and unobtrusive way shehas worked for years to bring about a humanecorrective system that should be reformativenot retributive. She believes that the pun-ishment lies in the fact of incarceration; therest should be scientific justice to the pris-oner. The particular reforms that have beeninstituted during the encumbency of Mrs,Welshe as matron of Auburn WomensPrison, are: the enforcement of classifica-tion, the adoption of honor emblems, thenumbering of all garments in order to en- 80 THE AMERICAN REVIEW OF REVIEWS Text Appearing After Image: WORKSHOP IN THE AUBURN PRISON (Employment is recognized as one of the cardinal principles of prison management) able each prisoner to receive her own cloth-ing from the laundry, the abolition of stripeddresses for first-grade women, the purchaseof new cooking apparatus which enables thekitchens to give more variety in the prepara-tion of food, and the establishing of a com-prehensive school system. The system of honor emblems pro-vides that a bar of red cloth be worn on theleft sleeve for every year of good conduct inthe prison; for every five years of good con-duct a star is worn. The emblems are popu-lar as they carry privileges, and their successhas ))roved that a high standard of disciplinecan be more easily maintained by a systemof rewards than by a system of punishment.About one-half of the women at Auburn arecolored and a little over one-fourth are for-eign born. Three-fourths come from theslums of New York City, and they have,as a rule, little knowledge of industryor country l
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