Committee on Probation and Parole-Continued. TIREY L. FORD, Member Board of HENRY J. MCCANN, Member State GEO. W. O. MATTHEWS, Superintend- MRS. OPHELIA L. AMIGH, Superin- MRS. LESTER F. JONES, Secretary G. B. NEWCOMB, Superintendent So- JOHN B. HEBBERD, Deputy Prison Committee on Prison Discipline. *T. P. SALE, Warden State Prison, Ra- JUDGE A. J. G. WELLS, Warden State W. H. MOYER, Atlanta, Ga. J. C. SANDERS, Warden State Prison, E. J. FOGARTY, Warden State Prison, COL. W. H. LINDSAY, Warden Provin- C. C. MCCLAUGHRY, Superintendent R. H. BUCKINGHAM, Member Board of A. W. EDDINS, Superintendent State WARD A. GARNER, Warden State DR. J. H. RIVERS, Warden Provincial MAJ. C. B. HATCH, Superintendent U. F. S. TALCOTT, Warden State Prson, T. E. THOMAS, Warden State Prison, Committee on Discharged Prisoners-Continued. REV. J. L. SUTTON, Secretary Prison REV. W. E. COLLETT, 1731 Arapahoe MRS. MAUD BALLINGTON BOOTH, W. I. DAY, Oakland, Cal. REV. H. M. THOMPSON, Superintend- REV. ROBERT WALKER, Chaplain Committee on Statistics of Crime. FREDERICK L. HOFFMAN, Statisti- JOHN KOREN, 25 Pemberton Square, PROF. CHARLES A. ELWOOD, Univer- Special Committee on Jails, W. T. CROSS, Secretary N. C. of C. and JOHN L. WHITMAN, Superintendent JOSEPH T. MASTIN, Secretary Board FRANK L. RANDALL, Chairman Prison FINLAY SPENCER, Secretary Prison- M. J. TAPPINS, Secretary Board of Lockups and Police Stations. J. A. PIPER, Secretary Board of State FRANK R. MCDONALD, Inspector of AUXILIARY ASSOCIATIONS. Wardens' Association. PRESIDENT-ARTHUR PRATT, Warden Utah State Prison, Salt Lake City, Utah. FIRST VICE-PRESIDENT-PATRICK HAYES, Warden New York Penitentiary, Blackwell's Island, New York City. SECOND VICE-PRESIDENT-JOHN F. LEONARD, Warden State Penitentiary, Baltimore, Maryland. SECRETARY-FRANK MCDONALD, Superintendent Workhouse, Minneapolis, Minn. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE— BERNARD J. LEE, Warden City Jail, Baltimore, Md. T. E. THOMAS, Warden Ohio State Prison, Columbus, Ohio. Chaplains' Association. HONORARY PRESIDENT-REV. W. J. BATT, Concord Junction, Mass. PRESIDENT REV. O. L. KIPLINGER, Chaplain State Prison, Michigan City, Ind. FIRST VICE-PRESIDENT-REV. C. E. BENSON, Chaplain State Prison, Stillwater, Minn. SECOND VICE-PRESIDENT-REV. S. J. DOWLING, Chaplain State Prison, Waupun, Wis. THIRD VICE-PRESIDENT-REV. R. W. MERRIFIELD, Chaplain Reformatory, Jeffersonville, Ind. FOURTH VICE-PRESIDENT-REV. MICHAEL J. MURPHY, Chaplain State Prison, Charlestown, Mass. SECRETARY AND TREASURER--REV. ROBERT WALKER, Chaplain Reformatory, Concord Junction, Mass. Prison Physicians' Association. PRESIDENT-PAUL E. BOWERS, M. D., Prison Physician, Michigan City, Ind. FIRST VICE-PRESIDENT-GUY G. FERNALD, M. D., Physician of Reformatory, Concord Junction, Mass. SECOND VICE-PRESIDENT-E. F. GREEN, M. D., Physician Reformatory, St. Cloud, Minn. SECRETARY-DANIEL PHELAN, M. D., Surgeon Dominion Penitentiary, Kingston, EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Canada. DR. EDITH R. SPAULDING, Physician Women's Prison, South Framingham, Mass. DR. JOHN P. BENSON, Physician Joliet Penitentiary, Joliet, Ill. DR. W. H. KRAMER, Physician to Penitentiary, Wilmington, Del. Association of Governing Boards. PRESIDENT-P. H. LINDLEY, Vice-President State Board of Control, Chippewa Falls, Wis. FIRST VICE-PRESIDENT-TIREY L. FORD, Member Board of Prison Directors, San Francisco, Cal. SECOND VICE-PRESIDENT-J. H. MCCONLOGUE, Chairman Iowa State Board of Control, Des Moines, Iowa. SECRETARY-MISS CATHERINE M. O'LEARY, Member Massachusetts Prison Commission, Boston, Mass. The American Association of Clinical Criminology. PRESIDENT-DR. DAVID C. PEYTON, General Superintendent Indiana Reformatory, Jeffersonville, Ind. TREASURER AND SECRETARY-PROF. B. E. MERRIAM, Educational Director and Psychologist New Jersey Reformatory, Rahway, N. J. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE DR. KATHARINE B. DAVIS, Commissioner of Correction, New York City. DR. WILLIAM HEALY, Psychopathic Institute, Chicago, Ill. DR. DAVID C. PEYTON, Indiana State Reformatory, Jeffersonville, Ind. Woman's Association. PESIDENT-MRS. EMMA O'SULLIVAN, Superintendent Reformatory for Women, VICE-PRESIDENT-DR. KENOSHA SESSIONS, Superintendent Indiana Girls' School, Boys' School Section. PRESIDENT-GEORGE WEBSTER, JR., Treasurer Board of Trustees Indiana Boys' School, Marion, Ind. SECRETARY-COL. C. B. ADAMS, Superintendent Reformatory, Concord Junction, Mass. Boards of Parole and Pardon. PRESIDENT-RICHARD B. NOEL, Chairman State Board of Pardons and Paroles, Jefferson City, Mo. VICE-PRESIDENT MRS. JACOB P. DUNN, Member Board of Trustees Indiana Woman's Prison, Indianapolis, Ind. SECRETARY-JOHN B. HEBBERD, Deputy Prison Commissioner, Boston, Mass. PROCEEDINGS. OPENING SESSION. Saturday Evening, October 9, 1915, 8:15 o'clock. The annual meeting of the American Prison Association opened its sessions Saturday evening, October 9, 1915, in the Auditorium of the Hotel Oakland, William N. Friend, chairman of the local general committee, presiding. Following the invocation by Father Morrison of Berkeley, addresses of welcome were made by Judge Everett Brown of the Superior Court, Oakland; Hon. John L. Davie, Mayor of Oakland, and Hon. C. L. Newmiller, President of the State Board of Prison Directors of California, who welcomed the delegates on behalf of the Governor of the State. RESPONSE TO ADDRESSES OF WELCOME. FRANK L. RANDALL, CHAIRMAN PRISON COMMISSION, BOSTON. The American Prison Association was organized, and is maintained, for certain declared purposes, as follows: 1st. For the improvement of the laws which deal with offenses and offenders, and of the procedure of their enforcement. 2d. To study the causes of crime and of the social surroundings of offenders, and the best methods of dealing with the latter, and of preventing the former. 3d. The improvement of institutions wherein offenders are found. 4th. The after-care of prisoners, and especially such as give evidence of reformation. We are largely a body of officials having some relation to all those who are charged in court with crime, and not forthwith discharged. The number of individuals falling to some extent under |