Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-05-05

court.yards Each building has four
stories, ana between them, they pro-
vide accommodation as IT is
for 1900 inmates. The ground floor
h. reserved for female criminals
awaiting their transfer TO other penal
establishments. and their workshops
are also situated there. ON the floor
above are women under remand. and
girls under age who have been or
dered tn be detained until they have
reached their majority. ON the third
floor are ponned the "unfortunates 49,
feminine outcasts. who have failed TO
comply with certain police regulations
affecting their class.
a PLACE OF MISERY.
The latter In this house of misery,
form the bulk of the prisoners, and
are again subdivided into three class
es; the seniors, the unruly and the
young To the miserable elderly Wo-
men. st. Lazare IS home which they
never want 10 leave Poor wretches,
what awaits them outside? The pave
ment for a bed! No sooner is one dis
charged I'm the morning than she de-
liberatcly sets to work to commit some
offence that win ensure her being
brought back at night Reckless. ri
bald Of speech, lost To all sense Of
shame, the assamblage of the "unruly"
constitutes a veritable Inferno.
The young girls are most to be
pitied Like the seniors and the I'M
ruly, they have a ward TO themselves.
aud some feeble efforts are made to
reclaim them, but they are seldom sue
cessfuL The system pursued is bad
ono. No discrimination Is made be-
tween those who are innately vicious
and irreclaimable and those who are
simply morally weak. They are all
herded together promiscuously, and
those who might be reformed under
proper conditions are subjected 10 COR
rupting influences to which they
speedily succumb. In the vast major
lily of cases, the girl who has made her
FIRST false step becomes hopelessly lost.
when she is sent TO 81. LaZare under
the pretense Of seeking to make de-
cent woman OF her.
WITH SEPARATE SELLS.
Prisoners under remand are oe
course, provided with separate cells.
and can order their food from the out
side, provided they do not indulge In
what the authorities regard as iuyur-
les. An the famInine celebrities I'M
tho Partisan world of crime, for many
years back. have while awaiting trial.
been lodged IN 81. La2are Gabrielle
R0mperd, the murdcrcs9 of Goufte.
Nine. Limousin, the woman who trad
ed i'm decorations and compromised
Wilson W. Grevy's sOn-in-law, and
Nine Humhert, now doing time" at
Rennes. passed through the cells Of
st. Lazarc. At the present time. the
most interesting OF It's inmates t. ia
'Meroili, the mistress Of Galaxy, the alb.
scondiug bank clerk
As 4 prison and house OF detention
ST. Lazare has long been q reproach
To French penal institutions It is
behind the tim as In everything, The
food supplied Is scaudalously inade-
quate. The punishmeuts Tor slight In
fractions of IT'S rules are extremely
severe. and comprise the dark, cold
cell, bread and wafer diet a plank
bed, and 1T II bo deemed necessary.
the strait Jacket The ventilation is
bad. the lighting poor. end tho SAINT
tnry arraugomc uf tho worst kind
Under such conditions e is not 10 be
wondered az tnat anaemin and con-
sumption claim a far larger percentage
81 victm7 q 49, l.aZare than AZ any
other French prison. ~ Is remnant
OF barbarous age, a disgrace TO
French civilization.
MAURICE Iceberg.