Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-04-12
JOBS FOR Ex-CONvICTS.
Representative of Central Howard
Association is in the City.

VIM. n. Coffey, northwe estern repre-
sentative of the Central Howard ass0cia-
ton, is in the city seeking employment
for discharged and par0Ied prisoners
who go out from the seate Institutions,
the prisons and reformatorfes\ without
homes and friends able or willing To
assist them. MIR. Coffey visits business
houses and factories where men are
needed aud in confidence find positions
for the prisoners who have served their
terms and who are willing and anxious
to live good lives
The Central Howard association de-
riyes its name from Jno. Howard, the
great English reformer of the seven
teenth century. 1t has eight states in
corporated, beginning with Ohio includ-
ing Kentucky, all the Lake States
Minnesota and Iowa During the year
1908, 2j6 men applied for positions;
Of this number PAS we're helped 225
proving to be permanent positions;
twenty one of the 24S men placed have
been found disappointing.
According to the statement of the re-
port of the last prison congress at Kan
sas City 90 per cent. of the men and boys
incarcerated within prison walls eTe
accidental, men subject to the envi-
WuiCn lldkCS JuCIu WHdI lu6N
are, and then when these men leave the
prison stamped with an everlasting
stigma they find that the general pub
lie would rather have men in their EN-
ploy who have not had prison exper-
ience, ninety-three per cent. of the
prison output last year were without
friends or homes able or willing to as
sist them.
The Central Howard association
gives these men employment, upon
their application the day they leave the
prison door.
8 Through this means they become pro-
ducing factors in society. learn what a
dollar is worth, draw their own salary,
build up their own homes and there is
no doubt but that out of the 1000 men
incarcerated in the United States many
of them can and will become good citi-
zens and live christian lives owing to
the fact that many are without practi-
cal education or trades The associa-
ton has arranged with the American
School of correspondence of the Armour
Institute, for several of the young men
who are at work, to take a course of
study, in practical subjects, such as
mechanical and electrical engineering
plumbing, drawing, etc. They will
allow the men to pay the tuition of the
course in small payments, and give
them their time to raise the money;
several of the young men under parole
are taking advantage of this opportun-
ity, which in future will mean much to
them.
The Central Howard association is
organized for the promotion of the fol-
lowing objects:
To awaken public sentiment in be-
half of the worthy ex-prisoner.
To secure employment for ex-prison-
err, especially acting as first friend to
men entitled to parole.
To extend the advantages of the
parole law, and the indeterminate SEN
tence and the juvenile court law.
To encourage measures for the con-
tinued improvement of prison building
aud diseiplnes particularly in county
jails and city prisons where it is most
needed.
To facilitate the organization of local
and state prison aid societies and to
act as bureau of cooperation between
them.
The association receives no financial
help from the states, but is maintained
entirely as philanthropy The officers
are; President, Hon Ephraim Baum
ing; Supt., +. Emory Leyon, Secretary,
John L. TAFT, Treasurer, T. c. McMil-
lian, Northwestern representative, VIM.
N Coffey, Office sos So. Barstow ST.,
Eau Claire, Wis.