The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1877-02-20
OUR MODEL PENlTENTlARY.
uutT ufrHOD .iND DIS'fPLfNE HitE
IDNE FOH ONE PRISON.

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within fH ID ia'nUuS' walls oil tme Capitol The
,.ftIr i4 200 On.' struck with the strict and per
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o. Us. confined mere on the average
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l.s cs 'apOl. \ majority Oi The prisoners are
Nll are Nno"n u" s""f'-''i prison rs u'' IT,.
tlo-' cunN ted oi peUy ohch 's IN TINS ana
tle aiIpiui nu COUNT -. and sent here for from
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nnpt"llia'." oI prisoners, rs the Time II not SUI
Il ant teach them a trad. or make them cx-
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AlhtS Irhlfhlihiy, brsitrS paying an run
~ Ar,.nv county a b,nls,r,, surnl,s
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ti'" si p'ihn "' @le PRISON Is not tAe result
~ harsh treatment or fear ON the part Of
Al ..,,.r. Ne pi.iurv ava ,hn, hn
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rarely eyer has dih'ut with ms prisoners
ami fhai shower baths thumb sorrows. and
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prisons are here unkn'Wn rue pr son r.
an, ,mplovod in the manufactur of shoes for a
fu IA Sew York. ami willie It i-.elmo-t i'm.
lf..~uf other PRISONS employment could here
l. sound tor twice as many more u the capacity
r.i.t PRISON was sufficient 10 hold thcn
"N,NN I- thI- So Mr.. pil-hur, z"
"E ll,.i-, h.f. tI,e 'onNi,ts havn no stin,s
= r, man /. compelled to work Iusi So many
f.ur- "a Inv and no lonfns or shfrkius is per
,.' q, ,r,,ti., ~ nli"v,in., ronyi f.. /" hay"n
: mo-. and ihen paying them for overwork dom
IL. ~. 80 al tn,'lrt,-k This mas Ind "A ,lrnor-
a'.l.us m 4 uunn tha urislnnrs ~ many
wluT re.isc t0 do any o,nrwork. while those
md thi-. tngotharw.th thr lnNitg N discipline
ia. driven the contractor. away from the
room In which nre stationed ,iay NH ni.ht twn
vrli armed pi,ar,l. the nins.iy. door iraJing 10
: ~ ,.lrt yard If ihn urisnn was ot.nrI and
"a. vi-ltrr ,v,s la tha 'uris,n ,,rnun,ls nrn,..r
'rhonsh il was a pleasant dnv not an idl., IRIS.
,,'.i' MS Il, hs s.,t Th,- was in married. con
,g.-t Nth whit may h. seen in the yari ~ any
,fh,. rti-nn III The STATE. On one side were th1
sn. in which tho prisoners wer" NJ work
MAX |ns shoes. In the first one "A long well
lsht,Innd ventilated room about three hun
dr,i were busy. ali dressed in the Uniform Of
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hnr VIZ 'nr osS, man S,eu, nor w,s
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loa f,v,,ri n thick 81 n,itIie ,,,,,'d ,,rs'7nsr
@ , 80. rim, stnrt H. pns A,,,. V.,s
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I'M "iu - - a varv ,,,'t nrisnner ma h.,
.,t',i. l..iv IN hiS intis bih'mi,h "a, irst =,
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ia ~ ~ Des AMOS seemed siront and
Icalthy. though not SO gay and eau y as when
ihe fashinnabl. eluis ''''' -'0'0' ''''-
-. TTat kset man naar the ,niddla Of the
,,o,n H. Sart GrindelI ~ the shin II Marx WHO
Vim sent here fnr .rinltv Ia his sailor. . Grin
Hi Svas nolishing the edges 81 ladi.-' cait'rs
Inst hehind 1irind.l1 Tint mun win the
Iicbt mir ia the notorious rouut.rf.itnr Tom
Il,iierd The smnrtest man huvs in the nris1n'
IL hns hrnk.n ont az nearly every nrison In
tho tinted States Int have no frnr 81 his y.t-
itnp aVvav from here He il "A splendid work .
man and never gives tho least frouhle" Bal
lard Was finishing the sOles of shoes He .
rhout forty wears of age. ard probably the most
ekilful engrayer OF counterfeit plates this cOun-
years OF his sentence, which was Tor thirty
out II nrison. If he lives iii then.
That negro working by Balurd's side il the
man who Killed the policeman, OBrien, IN