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" STERN DISCIPLINE HELD PRISON NEED Unarmed Guards Ignored Only Revolt Ever Attempted > at Ontario Penitentiary. s'de guns. 5" or by ‘There has mever bee; mutiny nor ric ingits 235 vears of existence. BY CHARLES A. MICHIE. threat of these jagged walls, own upon the gale-swept shores of Lake Ontario, hangs over the furtive head of every crook and evil doer in the Dominion. The penitentiary, which sprawls hel- ter skelter within, is regarded as the model for all such inst'tutions on the Continent, and Warden John C. Pons- ford, ruddy, genial, like any successful business man, challenges the world w equal it. “I have the finest prison, not onl in Canada and the United States, buc in the civilized world, and I challenge contradiction,” he declared with con- wviction. You can't just “crash the gate” ac this institution. To get inside is a devious procedure. Gen. Willlam St. Pirie Hughes, ac Ottawa, superntendent of peniten- tiaries, is the only man who controis admission and is very strict lowing vistors whose busin of the ordinary. But once ins visitors find the prison as ho as Warden Ponsford can make it. “Need Discipline” at Auburn. By long-distance telephone conversa- tion Gen. Hughes inquired the business of a reporter from across the border and snorted with regard to Auburn . _“They need discipline down . Walt till you see this place.” rden Ponsford is a rigid discipli- narian, although it is recorded that three prisoners asked the minister of Justice to extend their sentences to en- able them to assist the warden to sink & coal mine at Edmonton “pen” in rec- ord time. . The warden refused comment on prison revolts in the United States, re- marking that a two-hour tour of every nook and cranny of his own institution ‘would be eloquent. As the wings, cells and industries of the prison were explored, he told of the theories and-practices of this and other Canadian penitentiaries. “A thing we do not have here is the trusty ‘system,’ he saild. “If a man is in here, he can't be trusted, and we don't trust him. Simple, isn't it?” In two hours the only guns visible were those which came smartly to “present arms” as the warden and Chief Keeper Matt Walsh passed. There were four, at the shoulders of a guard stationed at each corner of the wall, ‘which incloses 12 acres of buildings and yards. The inside guards carry no Weapons other than a “billy.” It was in 1914, when practically everybody outside carried rifles, that guns were taken from the police force of Portsmouth “pen.” This move was made on the orders of C. J. Doherty, then minister of justice in Parliament. “If one of my policemen (they don’t call them guards here) should have a gun in his pocket while supervising the work of a big squad of convicts and he is suddenly attacked, what chance has he to use the gun?” the warden asked, reasonably. “If he has one, the prisoners get it. They are armed and a menace %o the lives of everybody in the prison. That has happened before today,” he concluded. The shops are all connected with the main doors leading into what 1s known as the “shop dome.” Here other unarmed guards are stationea upstairs and down, with a great triangle ng suspended beyond the upper gal- gry to sound any alarm. This tocsin has not sounded for many years. And here the great age of the in- stitution becomes obvious. The flag- stones and ancient iron railing speak of construction days 100 years agu. Since that time the prison has been added to constantly and 10 years ago it was entirely remodeled. Only Revelt Was Ignored. ‘The only suspicion of mutiny oec- curred six or seven years ago, when “Red” Ryan, a bank bandit, mobilized a large squad of other long-term men, who seized upon crowbars, axes and anything that looked like & weapon ana milled around in the great yard. ‘There was no way out. The undis- turbed police force did not attempt w stop the demonstration. The mutineers were allowed to run around and yell to their hearts’ content. As supper time approached the more timid sneaked 7ukl.ly into the buildings and headed for the kitchen and food. yan was unable to prevent desertion from the ranks of his guerilla army when hunger md;d them back to where they would ed. As the men slipped inside they were marched quietly to their cells, Ryan and other ringleaders were seized, and Portsmouth's one and only one revolt was over. There has been no escape from the five Canadian penitentiaries, of which Kingston is the largest, in six years. American crocks, in Canada because they are in fear of a fourth conviction under the Baumes in Kingston “‘pen,” warden declares. They hate the strict discipline of the institution, but he adds they speak with terror of the law which would put them away for life. The dining-room system of feeding passed at Canadian penitentiaries, the warden said, as the men filed in for supper, with the passing of the dark ages of &rlson regulation. The cellular system is in force here and has been for many years. As the men march in single file into the great wing dome of the cell blocks (they pick up trays as in a cafeteria. Each receives his rations and proceeds immediately to his cell. Here he has a table and eats alone. The federal government of Canada is in great part responsible for the busy industries of the penitentiary. Mail bags produced revenue for the institution in the fiscal year 1928-29 amounting to between $55,000 and $60,~ 000 and this department, combined with the broom shop, the shoe shop and the | tailoring department, brought $80,000 revenue. Convicts Are Kept Busy. The department of Indian affairs buys clothing from Portsmouth for dis- Indians as far North as the Arctic Cir~ Big ¥ Radio ‘k Stores 409 11th St. tribution among treaty and destitute | busing 1 cle, the Royal Northwest Mounted Po- lice buy their riding boots and undress uniforms here, and the prison authori- ties are bickering now for militia con- Thus does the state assist in the all- important business of keeping the des- perate men busy and out of trouble. In the machine shop and stone cut- ting department are being prepared the stone and barriers for a new women's prison being built half a mile away. In the Summertime a 400-acre farm sup- plies work for more than 150 men. No newspapers are allowed into the men’s cells, so that Warden Ponsford says the men in his care still do not know of the bloody revolts at Auburn. All magazines are carefully censored. Relatives only are allowed to visit prisoners, and that only once in two months. When they meet with a bar- red and screened corridor between them A,gunrd listens to every word that's said. “Oh, we are as strict as we can be,” Warden Ponsford declared, “but our record speaks for our success.” (Copyright, 1920, by the North American Newspaper Alliance.) Tourists Increase. LONDON (#).—Foreign tourists visit- ing Great Britain in the first nine months of 1929 totaled 209,909, an in- crease of 6 per cent over the same pe- riod in 1928. The Travel Association of Great Britain said the figures exclude ess visitors, seamen and passen- gers in transit to other countries. STAR 1 SERVICE vith HE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. 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