, 1869-06-30

yearly EnEtc1pttoEt.
Remittance. may he rkde either bE DRIFT, e1presa
Poet Office order. or in .csrtcred letters II oaE rk
7kaus TO c1TI supeCH1HEna:
Daily. dc,r cred, S.uday E1cEFrEn.s5 ecntep1 1eeh
Daily. de:tve1sd- Sunday 1Fc1HpIn34 ren4 per Week-
Addt,ee TR1BUSpoot3n1ftAN1;r t31t.'-s =,
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 30, 1869.
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THK cHARaEs AeAEsT TIE PEa11EE-
TIABY.
Tie testimony, which We publish else
where, relatire to the management Of the
Joliet PeD;tentiasy goes to siaaX<hat, out of
the twsire hundred pd pd11tsf1iers t1 confined there,
abo4t one-haH are unemployed during much
al the the time, though the foregen Of the
several Workshops connected with the
prison need thei- labor constantly; that
the unemployed n;n are permitted to meet
in groups, associate and converse together
in the ipr1son yards and courts, and that
more than half of them have provided
themselves with knives Of Some kind,
whereas, under former management, and in
mcst ii not all other prisons, the conv1cts
ure tlisa1ned, are frequently searched 1or
srnls, aud are forbidden opportunities Of con-
versing together in groups and conspiring;
that the forty or fifty guards are, under
these circumstances, at the mercy Of the
nr;soners should they choose to rise.
which they have rot thus fur done
only because their condition in the prison
is more pleasant than it would he outside
that the Law allowing pay to prisoners for
ovcrrork has been made q prete1t, BY po.-
.;on - .,,a ,r;sore-s fo, doing little or no
work crcert :. overvo-ls.r and TINT some Of
,,,s ,,-;soners pre fins enabled TO make good
,rooes IN money. While thew are fed, clothed
o,I 1,t7,,t,7 et Tho 4xnenae of the State;
,ba, tbe d;sc;nl;ne Of the prison is so Lax
that tha ouards dere not enforce any order
or nol;cr v..:ch would be uuwelcome to the
nr7soners and that. when some Of them have
nroposed TO do so. they have been met with
tynen th-eats Of having their "hearts cut
out" liz the prisoners tbemselres-uhich
threats have accomplished their intended
effect, instead Of leading to the pun
;.bment ri those who dared to
,,rn,i, s7,ch o1oss iusubordination that
tn. pri,on en-, are habitual!r permitted, con-
trurv Il, t1,4 etatut. law II Illinois, 10 leave
+bo ,r;eo, ualls an; "a ont into the CITY Of
J,1;.t e,d tbe su-rouniir. country, with
only one guard TO from three ~ SIX pflson-
ers, md that: in kone such ccscs, prisoners
have vailed away and escaped, tnouen the
instances IN which this mas OCCURRED ote
fewer tasa they would oe Il ,ney were no'
huT'ag th1nss p5ettE 1nucn tne's OWL
way III the PRISON tna' eons'oefao.e auan-
ttle4 OF sooas' sno na1et1hs !, useu IL 4nen
manufacture a1e eonseanaS oeins eso'en
from the various "o'Aanop7' taheil oul -
these "Ahs2n'se p17sonefs' Sno e1en1nseu
for liquors. 0'h'eh are mus in.soanseu s,a
into the pnsoh VIII uaneelol9
frequency, a1fa to an alarming ma aen'ora'-
izlng extent; that tho foreman OF Inc snoe-
shop estimates the losses from this source
TT one hundred ard fifty dollars per
week; that, by the introduction md reading
Of The daily papers, as well RS by frequent
opportunities when out Of the prison. the
cuuyic:s are kept fully app-,sed OF the DO
ius= Of their con{ederates IN crime IN th.'
cago end throughout tbs state; that
single illustration Of the modes IN which
such acquaintance enables them TO asslst
1.1rh ffEcr II c inferred from 4l6 1ACC