LOUIS DWIGHT, Secretary, BOSTON, Mass. No. 51 Court Street. All letters concerning funds, may be addressed to CHARLES CLEVELAND, Treasurer, Boston, Mass. SUBJECTS OF INQUIRY CONCERNING PRISONS. 1. Situation. Is it near a town, river, or other buildings? What is th height, length, &c. of the wall? What is the expense, design, number of th prison buildings; and when they were erected? 2. Interior of the yard. Is it dry, paved, watered, and drained? Are tl walls white-washed? privies and drains cleansed ? 3. Day Rooms. What is the size, number, mode of airing, lighting, warn ing, cleansing, furnishing, fastening? 4. Night Cells. What is the size, number, mode of airing, lighting, warn ing, cleansing, furnishing, fastening? 5. Hospital. What is the salary and duty of the physician, and how is supplied with medicine? What is the character and compensation of th nurse? What is the number of deaths; and of what diseases? 6. Officers. Inspectors-their number, duty, mode of appointment, an compensation? Keeper-his name, residence, former occupation, characte duties, compensation, time of holding his office? Turnkeys-their numbe duty, salary? 7. Prisoners. Their number, age, color, sex, nativity, crime, sentenc frequency of conviction? 8. Admission of Prisoners. As to cleanliness, clothing, fees and garnish? 9. Admission of Prisoners' Friends. Who are admitted, at what hours, an under what circumstances? 10. Admission of Visitors. On what conditions, and by whom attended? 11. Moral Treatment. Classification, instruction and employment? 12. Punishments. By solitary confinement, chains, stripes, or all of them 13. Religious Instruction. Of the chapel-its size and regulations? ( the chaplain-his character, residence, duties and compensation? Of th Bible-number, mode of distribution; effects, whether good or bad; peruse or neglected; preserved or destroyed? 14. Exercise. When, where, and under what circumstances? 15. Food. Its quantity, quality, mode and time of distribution? 16. Clothing. How much, by whom supplied, how often changed an cleansed? Can th 17. Cleanliness. Is it daily? Are soap and towels furnished? prison dress be washed? How often do they shave and cut their hair? ] there a bath, and how often is it used? 18. Discharge of the Prisoners. At what time in the day? With wha means of providing for themselves? With clothing or money? 19. Vices of Prisoners. What are they? Any drunkenness, gamblin profane swearing, fighting, combinations against society, insurrections, fals keys, weapons of death? Any rum, cards, instruments of mischief, newsp pers, plates to make counterfeit bills, or dies and presses to alter them? An counterfeit coin and moulds? Any good or bad money? Any cases of pu ishment for unnatural crime? How are these things done without discovery How are prohibited articles obtained? Where are they concealed? What the effect of the system on character ? |