ABSTRACT
Mary Belle Harris’s lengthy career in corrections involved positions as superintendent of the State Reformatory for Women at Clinton, New Jersey; assistant director of the Section on Reformatories and Detention Homes for the U.S. War Department; superintendent of the Federal Institution for Women at Alderson, West Virginia; and member of the Pennsylvania Board of Parole. She championed reform and rehabilitative treatment. Her book, I Knew Them in Prison, was acclaimed by such notables as Eleanor Roosevelt, Sing Sing Warden Lewis E. Lawes; and the distinguished correctional administrator and author Austin H. MacCormick.
