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missioners is merely a board of trustees over the State prison. — Revised 

 Code, 1908, § 146, p. 237; Penal Code, § 8460; Session Laws, 1911, Ch. 163, 

 p. 560. 



Illinois. A board of five persons, one an expert in treatment of 

 insane, styled Board of Administration, has executive and administrative 

 supervision (control) over all State charitable institutions; hospitals for 

 insane, feeble-minded, and epileptic, training schools for boys and for 

 girls. It inspects and investigates the institutions for poor relief, alms- 

 houses, children's home-finding societies, orphanages, etc., and licenses all 

 institutions for the treatment of mental or nervous diseases. It inspects 

 county and city prisons and other institutions for confinement. The 

 board has close fiscal supervision and control of all State charitable insti- 

 tutions thru its fiscal supervisor. 



A board of five persons, styled the Charities Commission, investigates 

 the whole system of public charitable institutions of the State, examining 

 equipment, management, and policy of each, and may inquire into the 

 management of insane hospitals and any place where a person is detained 

 for treatment of nervous diseases. It also inspects county jails, city 

 prisons, workhouses, etc., to collect statistics concerning inmates, and 

 visits each State institution at least quarterly. The commission may 

 inquire at its discretion into the equipment, management, and policies of 

 all institutions and organizations coming under the supervision and 

 inspection of the Board of Administration. It maintains a Bureau of 

 Criminal Statistics. Not more than three of the members in either board 

 shall be from the same political party, and members of the Charities Com- 

 mission receive no compensation. The members of the Board of Adminis- 

 tration receive an annual salary of $6,000. — Laws, 1912, p. 66. 



Illinois has also a Board of Prison Industries of Illinois which is com- 

 posed of the commissioners of the penitentiaries of Joliet and at Chester, 

 and the board of managers of the Illinois State Reformatory at Pontiac. 

 Their power is entirely over the labor of prisoners. — Revised Statutes, 

 1913, Ch. 108, p. 1845, § 75. 



Indiana. A board of six persons, styled Board of State Charities, 

 investigates the whole system of public charities and correctional institu- 

 tions of the State, and examines into the conditions of prisons, infirmaries, 

 public hospitals, and asylums, and must approve plans for new jails and 

 infirmaries. 



A board of six persons in each county, styled Board of County Chari- 

 ties, two of whom are women, inspects county poor asylums, jails, orphans' 

 homes, lock-ups, and other charitable or correctional institutions receiving 

 any support from public funds in the county, and reports to the State 

 Board of Charities. 



There is also in each county a board of children's guardians of six 

 members, three of them women, and every member a parent, which has 

 the care and supervision of neglected and dependent children under fifteen 

 years of age. It may take under its control children neglected or cruelly 

 treated by parents, juvenile delinquents, or truants, and may commit chil- 

 dren to orphan asylums. — Burns' Annotated Statutes, 1914, §§ 3665-3678, 

 9812a,6. 



