The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1905-12-29
ONLY TWO WOMEN
IN "PEN|TENT|ARY
South Dakota's Prison Walls,
However,, Shut in 2io
UP FOR LIFE
Every Trade and Profession Is Repre-.
sented Except That Of the Jour-
nIalist and Printer-No Longer
Federal Prison.

Federal Prison.
Sioux Falls, S. D., Dec. 25.-on De
cember 10, 1882, what is now the South
Sioux Falls. On that date twenty-nine
prisoners were brought from Detroit,
Mich, where the territory of Dakota
had been keeping it's prisoners. and
s,laced in the new penitentiary. The
number of inmates of that institution
there are 212 prisoners confined in h a
institution. OF this number 21O are
males, while but two are females.
The building is a large stone struc-
ture, built in the shape of a letter"T."
The building is considered n of the
and the yard is surrounded by an inn
mense stone wall twenty-five feet in
height, which Is S~urmounted by sentry
boxes.
Seventeen Up for Life.
OF the 210 male inmates of the in
derers and serving life sentences.
There are others. in for manslaughter
and murder in different degrees, who
are serving definite sentences. Accord
ing to the figures obtained from Ward
en- H. 4. Parmley, the average term of
the prisoners Is between three anu IOuii
years. There are, however, between
twenty and twenty-five prisoners who
are serving sentences from fifteen to
eighteen years. But most of the pris-
pners here are what are known as
short .termers."
To Pardon Female Convict.
Efforts are now being made looking
to the pardon of one of the female
prisoners, which, if successful, which
seems probable, will leave the institu-
ton with but one woman prisoner.
According to the figures of. Warden
Parmley about 10 per cent. of the
prisoners are second or third term
men.
OF the 30 male prisoners forty-five
are employed in the kitchen, dining
ROOM, laundry or inside the peniten-
tiary proper, on work connected with
the institution. OF the remainder 12O,
are employed iii the shirt factory, in
stalled less than a year ago. and the
remainder are kept at work getting out
stone or working on the ~penitentiary
farm and garden in the summer time.
The Indications are that the next
legislature will provide ways and
means for the establishment of a Irvine
factory. The men engaged in getting
out stone could be put to work in such
a factory, and a large majority of the
people OF the state desire the Irvine
factory installed.
|; II Is Not a R~eformatory.
The South Dakota p~enitentiary is not
Il "reformatory" in the pure sense of
the word. While the officials aim to
throw such influence around the pris-
oners as to show them the error of their
way, no special efforts in the line of re-
forming is undertaken. Church serv-
ices are held every Sunday morning.
one or another of the local ministers
preaching a mt Semi-religious
&c - ,,.-s- 1~o- n I
quite often. The prisoners enjoy the
latter, and when a familiar hymn or
song is sung. and they are invited to
join In the singing, they respond with
u will.
The crimes for which the prisoners
have been sent up cover about very
thing in the category of crime. OF
course burglary and grand larceny
have a long lead. Other crimes for
which prisoners now here are doing
time are:
The Many Crimes Committed.
Murder, manslaughter in different de-
grees, embezzlement. rape, forgery. ar
son, assault, perjury. counterfeiting,
illicit distilling, robbing the mails, rob
bling postoftices, o%bliterating cattle
brands. mailing obscene matter, adul-
terry, returning false accounts North
Dakota deputy marshal padded expense
ACCOUNT, bigamy, aiding prisoner to
escape. assault to commit rape, driving
horses from Indian reservation, incest.
stealing government property, abstract
ing funds, escaping from Jail. attempt
ing extortion, selling liquor to Indians.
The last mentioned crime is quite pre-
valent among the Indians. 8
or the 912 prisoners in the peniten-
tiary thirty-six are government prison
ers. That is prisoners sent up for fed
eral offenses by either South Dakota,
North Dakota or Nebraska, the Sioux
Falls penitentiary being the prison dcs-
,igRated for each OF these states for
federal prisoners. OF the federal pris-
oners nine are from Nebraska.
No Longer. Federal Prison.
However there will be no more re-
ceived from that state as the depart
ment Of justice has recently issued an
order that in the future federal pris-
oners from Nebraska. shall be impris-
oned at Lincoln. The nine Nebraska
federal prisoners will have to complete
their terms here as their sentence was
for certain periods in the Sioux Falls
penitentiary. .4
the occupation, trade or profession fol-
lows each name, and it was found that
almost every profession and trade
known is represented. There was
trade n one profession conspicuous
by their absence. n hat is the trade
of printer n profession of a Journals
list. There Is not a printer or j%ournal-
list in the Sioux Falls p~enitentiary.
FACES NEW TERM IN PRISON.
Sioux Falls, 8. D., Dec. 3.-Philip Nc
Intyre.a who is about to complete a term
in the p~enitentiary of Virginia for forgery,
and for whom the governor OF South Da-
kota has issued a reQuisition upon the gov
ernor, of Virginia. has an extended police
record and is one of the smoothest bank
swindlers in the country.
Since his visit to South Dakota a year
ago. when he committed the crime for
which the authorities of the state will
prosecute him after his release from the
Virginia prison. It has developed that he
is wanted by the police of various cities,
including Butte and Kalispell, Mont; Ev>
erett, Wash; South Omaha, Neb.; Doug
las, Ariz., and Ashland and Roseburg.
Ore.