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Indiana University Studies 



Utah.^^ Four States^^ have only a prison commission, and in 

 most of these States the boards are merely trustees for two or 

 three institutions. But since these boards are State boards 

 over that field which is particularly pressing in these States, 

 and in a limited way do exercise supervision and administra- 

 tion over State charities, these boards have been included in 

 the following classification. 



The Iowa Type. Sixteen States in the United States are 

 essentially of the Iowa type. They are Arizona, Arkansas, 

 Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Montana, Nevada, 

 North Dakota, Oregon, Texas, Washington, West Virginia, 

 Wisconsin, and Wyoming. Three of these are what are known 

 as "ex officio" boards; they consist of officials who already 

 hold an office under the State, and the boards thus made up 

 are not considered of great value in charity work. Arkansas, 

 Georgia, Nevada, and Texas have only a single board of prison 

 commissioners, with no State supervision in other fields. 



Kansas has two separate boards, one over the prisons and 

 reformatories, the other over the charitable institutions and 

 insane hospitals. Each board is similar in powers and func- 

 tions to the Iowa board. Montana also has a second board, 

 the Board of Commissioners for the Insane, which is identical 

 with the Board of Prison Commissioners in personnel, and is 

 therefore hardly to be considered an entirely different board, 

 but rather the same board given a different name for its new 

 functions. 



Ten of these sixteen States are more strictly of the Iowa 

 type, that is, they have one board of control over all institu- 

 tions. These States are Arizona, Florida, Iowa, Kentucky, 

 North Dakota, Oregon, Washington, West Virginia, Wiscon- 

 sin, and Wyoming. Nine of the sixteen have boards styled 

 Board of Control. These are Arizona, Iowa, Kansas (for the 

 charitable institutions), Kentucky, North Dakota, Oregon, 

 Washington, West Virginia, and Wisconsin. The names of 

 the other boards are as follows : Arkansas, Board of Commis- 

 sioners of Penitentiary and Reform Schools ; Florida, Board of 



1^ Idaho has a Board of State Prison Commissioners, and Utah a State Board of Cor- 

 rections, but these boards are purely boards of trustees for a single State prison. The 

 other prison commissions which have been included in the classification of central State 

 boards possess slightly wider powers. 



20 Alabama, Georgia, Nevada, and Texas. 



