Penal Servitude

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. The material contained in the following pages is but a brief summary of the findings of the National Committee on Prison Labor, on which the members of the Committee have based the following resolution, November 24th, 1911:<br><br>After one year of study the National Committee on Prison Labor found the preponderance of evidence to be in favor of the state use system; after a second year of study and further investigation, the Committee is in a position to declare as prejudicial to the welfare of the prisoner, the prisoner's family and the public, the contract system of prison labor. The Committee therefore declares itself opposed to the contract system of prison labor and to every other system which exploits his labor to the detriment of the prisoner.<br><br>To the members of the Committee:-<br><br>Thomas R. Sheer (Chairman), R. Montgomery Schell (Treasurer).<br><br>Percy A. Atherton, Mrs. Samuel J. Barrows, Miss Helen Varick Boswell, Alexander Johnson, B. A. Larger, Samuel McCune Lindsay, John Mitchell, Raymond Robbins, Henry Solomon, Leslie Willis Sprague (Executive Committee).<br><br>John R. Alpine, Carol Aronovici, William S. Bennet, Mrs. Elmer Blair, Mrs. Ballington Booth, Mrs. Clarence Burns, John R. Commons, Edgar T. Davies, Miles M. Dawson, William H. DeLacy, John P. Frey, Hamilton Holt, Richard Lloyd Jones, Ben Lindsey, Alfred E. Lunt, Julian Mack, John B. Mayo, Mrs. Philip N. Moore, Charles P. Neill, Thomas M. Osborne, James Bronson Reynolds, Charles Edward Russell, Louis Livingston Seaman, Clarence J. Shearn, John J. Sonsteby, Mrs. Anna Garlin Spencer, Mrs. Perry Starkweather, Warren S. Stone, Mrs. William Cumming Story, Charles H. Strong, Mrs. Eva McDonald Valesh, Edwin P. Wentworth, John Williams, Miss Mary Wood and others (General Committee).<br><br>the author makes due acknowledgment, and trusts that the work, which has but just begun, will be continued in the same b