New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 30, 1930, Page 3

| | | | NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, TU SDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1930. T PRISON CONMITTEE DECIDES CRURLTY CHARGE BASELESS (Continued From Iirst @ entitled to know tion is, how it what improvement made. The was taken up in three phases: Treatment of inmates; conditions in the niendations for provements Would Release Lifer As to the last named phase the ommittee recommended that life prisoners be paroled after 25 years As 10 ipline would lift the “silence” rule which forbids inmates 1o talk during away lhe privile who abosed Conversations at meals, the port said, is conducive to gre satisfaction with the Page) functions and ought to b work prison and recom- changes and im- meals, taking from those food enee of conversation makes t s hail ne depressing I'he committec grison fession would school cor icator instead of the and additions to the equip raent and fta department open air tarn. Of the mitte ities of the medic Ther dail prison should be recreation, and a cruelty cl disposed of that after I com of ill appears none of whom ha Ireatment of inmates, “tiers to have nno tre tory Lofr prisone would the Just criticism of even the sensttive.” Prison “Above Average™ frac- which arouse most Discussing prison somr 1 it reg torward looking policy of Colonel N. G irn looking to a adopted by ors unde was not mbly. prison buildir of st eational t 14 hospitalization to Warden =, ff for their work institutions; to m in approved shop on labor the made in 4 when the comes effect prir rative in January Hawes-Cooper law The committee would ha for working by i bought periods of guards Lo 8 hours Many ch S g noted 1 disciplinary ars which the rec for 14 wh ihe governor to were endorsed as were “To His 1 John H Governor tield cussions the These public niond W ty-1e list were those who, in various had eriticized nagement scope ng of Incl in this newspar the prison Here the report te f the of its ior horough m not put der was our ihat 1 con calculated to obta h 1 i We saw all prisoners who d In addition to this, up rviewed our own initiative e int ar f rs and visited still reir respective cells. We cords of a 1ls0 examin lars. prisone “We cond Institution and thereof idition 10 the torezo part ought and obtained expert from ing, we advice perienced in such ria k. In respect, we have co-operation of Mr of Washin W. Kirchw Frank W We are 1 them for their We feel that have f fications wer and judgment and ) by Alists ex- this herous eminent speci had und ihree men whose more compl complete. This report repr runanimous Zratifyin consensus of part of the opinion upon the experts.” that not confine ifs The committes here asserts it manifestly investigation to could ges of il in inistration. It es the fact that the public mere Ity, but entered into a prison adn what the in- | that it is app ature is not | ne - [ the deprivations from which a s during man | | entitled to the truth, that such a | | arcera- | ply It declare survey was needed anyway, and it|ent that the thanks the Hartford Council of | ready as yet to Chairman Osborn of the|appropriations for v “Movi pict prison board, Warden Reed, and| Then the | others for their cooperation. [l e - | the b Churches, o m present pl ry San even . 2| hox or prison an old months, t e e- inche ldings was erec 1 conduct tion “Phe in the ro naturall | heads Part 1 deals with illegal nother in 1835 and fr her i one called modern. Ney | bearing in mind the purpo: which prisons of tradition des d, the W barring certain inad one or two of which are por now | The building somewi ubject matter of this report itself under three groups can b allegations of and brutal conduct ith the treatment of abusive in connection prisoners Part 11 deals generally ditions at the exist Part 111 deals with tions for the ditions at th with con- is reasona prison as the and recommenda- improvement of State Prison PART | not Allegations of Illegal, Abusive and | sane Brutal Conduct investigation con- plumbing is now They ave a room, an exerci “The present was apparently precipitated by articles “ma ting from Rev. William Hen- ry Smith, a former prison chaplain tuated by newspaper in-|n of forme Deputy War we At prisoners, cws with Georg articles while fn tional f s of these ated t confinement, led to the bars of the inner as to \-toe for ten had beer cell in force them ‘to hours that a strained their prison Warden fied under oath before t T it th from hi Wwilliam H form pears Rev d no first-hand tior influ by Bouzhton Repr sisted that quoted. It hich may to reconeile versions of essential >atterson, when points yate Boughton in exec which contains all oners populatio and 4th of the comm to screer daily population “xperience ioned of s insane erimina veloped what Not Have a New Evening Gown “For New Year's” When It Costs Only 14 Group of Day and Sunday Night FROCKS *12.95 *7.95 Formerly Formerly S16, S10.95 Clearance COATS Formerly to $30.50 NOW $24.50 Gutlet Miliinery 177 MAIN ST. New Britain, Conn. m the tmposi- solitary confir o8 to d ar tion o for the occ prisoners tary, to the hars for very exceptior there have efractory of r which uld cism of even the At t) t the commit ' petition irouse the mient mong makes ms about the Mclntyr A prison « 1"pon treatr of ertain minor Melntyre whict contravenin is no adverse ¢ Miss Genevieve onstrated her of the inmate ich have to Cowles deep conce would instit ition criti 18 of Re Willta H. Smith this the same category. We feel that consideration which we later 1o these topics will suffi subject, fell cove ter e question of sc tary confinement, which we detail is our conclusion to the qu utal. unusual that iscuss r, it th referen of illegal, b rman treatme more in irges of this character are ely disproved by the ng part 2 of its repor ymittee declares that the policy of the prison board nfortunately adopted outlines same of the char ady cated, possibility of ob-| prisoners. 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