The Arizona sentinel., 1895-10-26
SWEEPING IMPROVEMENTS. CHANGES DECIDED UPON AT THE TERRITORIAL PRISON. Introduction of an Electric Light System Plans for Further Re. ducing the Expenses of the
 Institution ManUfact-
 ure of Clothing for
 the Insane Asylum.
From the Tucson Star.

with view to making some imporant improvements in connection with the Territorial prison and for the further reduction of the cost of maintaining that institution.
 It was determined to erect a new building directly east of the cell rooms to be I00x3O feet and divided into four compartments-the electric light and boiler rooms, the laundry, the bath and factory room, to be utilized for tailoring, shoemaking and other work.
 The dining room will be enlarged by taking out partition and adding the present kitchen. The present bakery and bath room will be con- verted into kitchen and bakery.
 The kitchen will be made more convenient and will adjoin the boiler house on the west and the cooking will be done by steam, which will be great saving in fuel, and the food will be better prepared at much less waste from burning. A steam range will be put in place of the one now almost worn out, and improved methods of preparing food will be in troduced which will result in great saving over the present methods.
 The laundry will adjoin the boiler room on the south and will be run by steam. It is estimated that the wood which is now required to run the laun dry alone will be sufficient to supply all the steam for the electric plant, the laundry, kitchen and bath room, as well as for pumping the water for the prison garden and to run the machinery required for prison manu- featuring purposes.
 The pump will be placed near the brink of the Colorado river. and we'll will be sunk so as to secure clear pure water which will be pumped into the prison reservoir. It is also the inten- tion to have the garden pump run by electricity, which will supply all the water required for the prison garden proper. As the lift will not be more than six feet, there will be an abund- ant supply for garden large enough to furnish all the vegetables required for prison and for experimental pun poses.
 All of the improvements will be made by prison labor excepting the placing of the machinery. etc.
 The Territory is now payiug $24OO l annually for electric light and water; | this will now be furnished by prison labor. The cost of wood for making steam will not be any more than the wood for the kitchen and laundry now costs, and both of them will be run by | steam. There will be hot water sup piled for the bath rooms, there will be l power for manufacturing purposes, there will be water supplied for the prison garden, and it IS estimated that all of the Improvements will cost the | territory less than $5OOO, and that saving resulting therefrom and the facilities added fer manufacturing will | in eighteen months cover the entire 1 amount; certainly in less tEan two years, and the plant and improve ments, it is estimated, will be good for ten years.
 The board also made arrangements to have a hundred suits of clothing pade for the inmates of the insane asylum, including underwear. The coat and pantaloons will be uniform in pattern and goods. The coat will be sack, square cut, with belt and silver or brass buttons, These suits can be made at the prison and deliver ed at the asylum at one-half the prices now paid for clothing, and they will be of better material and manufacture.
 Shoes and slippers for the asylum have also been ordered made at the prison, and thls will result in another important reduction.
 is also the intention of the board to have the clothing furnished dis charged prisoners made by prison labor The clothing IS now purchased ready made. All of the shoes and clothing now used by inmates of the prison are made within the walls.
 This work inaEgurated by the board is but the stepping-stone to a general system of manufacturing industry which is to be made part of the prison discipline, and as a means of making the institution self sustaining.
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