The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-05-04

mates. The men have an hour of "exer-
else" in the morning and after noon, during
which they walk back and forth along the
corridors in front of the cells. Except for
this they are locked in the cells day and
night.
The prison diet is practically the same
as that at the other institutions of the de-
partment-bread and coffee for breakfast,
meat and vegetables in various forms for
dinner in the middle of the day and tea and
bread for supper. Any prisoner, however,
Injuries of any sort is allowed to buy them.
OF course those awaiting trial are not put
into prison clothes. Two religious services
are held on Sunday and a priest is in at
tendance every day. The 'ten-day prison
erS' nave a special pen where they are al
lowed rather more freedom than the rest.
The older part of the prison is still heated
by stoves, the newer portions by steam.
AS a large proportion of the prisoners in
the Tombs are awaiting trial, its rules re-
earding their personal visitors and other
matters connected with the discipline are
necessarily somewhat different from those
in force in most prisons. Visitors are al
lowed from 1890 until u, and from 1890
until las every day. All such visitors are
first carefully searched and then provided
with. a prison pass. No one is allowed to
leave the building who cannot produce
sary in transmitting the packages sent in
by friends. These are always thoroughly
searched, and all sorts of contraband is
FOUND "A historic case was that OF a large
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whisky, a box of cigarettes and a quantity
of morphine
A room called the counselors' room is
provided for the meeting Of prisoners and
lawyers. There is a separate counsel room
for the women. The new city prison fac
ing Center street, which is expected 10 be
ready for occupancy by next fall, embodies
the very latest ideas in prison cOnstruc-
ton INTELLECTUALLY, as well as those Of
what Carlyle called the universal slug
gard and %scoundrel protection societies."
that iC IN say pNrprVfhiOR for securing Thp
comfort and health of the prisoners. Its
perfect equipment and almost luxurious
ness makes one wonder what words the
great dySpeptic, who violently resented
the cleanliness and order Of a London
prison of fifty years ago, hardly a whole
some stable in comparison. could find suf-
hciently strong for its Characterization.
A MODEL PRISON.
(which duke" he says, has a house so
thoroughly clean. pure. airy ana lives in
an element so wholesome and perfectly
adapted to the uses Of soul and body as
this same (prison), which is provided here
for the DEVILS regiment Of the line? : .
All round this beautiful establishment, or
oasis Of purity, intended for the devils
regiments of the line. lay continents of
dingy, poor, dirty dwellings,, where the IN
fortunate not yet enlisted into that force
were struggling msnifoldly-in their work
shops, in their marble yards and tan yards,
in their close cellars, cobbler stalls. hun
cry garrets-to keep the devil out of doors
and not enlist with him. And IL was 10y a
tax on these that the barracks for the
regiments OF the line were kept up"
The new prison contains 800 cells In two
blocks of four tiers each: that Is, the eel
portion of the prison consists of but two
floors, with enormously high ceilings. In
the center Of each OF these large rooms,
and reaching to the floor above. are four
tiers of steel cells, one above another, each
cell being battened on all sides and top and
bottom by a grid of case-hardened steel
bars. which are absolutely file and saw
proof. The dimensions Of the cells are 6xSxc
feet. The doors are made of case-hardened
OF the upper block is still another floor,
called the airing court. This contains two
large steel pens, one at each end. in. which
the prisoners viii be exercised. The block
Of cells in the center has a p~assageway
everywhere about il. so that there Is no
contact between any cell and the outside
walls of the prison. A corridor, called the
roof, between the front and back row OF
cells. and carries the plumbing pipes IL
can also be used for secretly observing the
prisoners. as at the back of each cell, which
is against the corridor. is a small peephole-
There is a visitors pen in the lower Tier
of each block. in which the prisoner meets
his friends. The cells. which are paved with
bluestone slabs, are unusually large. Each
one contains a metal bed fastened 10 the
wall by hinges, so that IL can be turned up
out OF the way during the day; a washbowl
with running water, an automatic nuSh
For each ten cells there Is one bath cell,
containing a shower bath. The tier cOrri-
doris are protected with steel netting. 50
there is no possibility OF q prisoner in an