Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1906-01-04
only TWO women
IN %PENITEN1IARY
South Oakota's Prison Walls,
However, Shut in 2lO
Men.
SEVENTEEN UP FOR LIFE
Every Trade and Profession Is Repre-,
<ented Except That Of the Jour
naIist and Printer-No Longer
Federal Prison.

Federal Prison.
Sioux Falls. S. d., Dec. 25.--On DE
rember Is. 1882, what is now the South
.Dakota penitentiary was opened III
Sioux Falls. On that date twenty-nine
prisoners were brought from Detroit.
Mici Where the territory of Dakota
had teen keeping it's prisoners. and
.'laced in the new penitentiary. The
number nf inmates of that institution
has growt until at the present time
there are 2ia prisoners confined in that
Institution. Df This number 2lO are
males. while bat two are females
The building Is "a large stone struc-
ture, built in the shape of IA letter"T."
h building is considered M of the
best penal institutions in the country.
and the yard is surrounded by al i'm
mense stone wall twer; v-fve feet in
height, which is surrounded by sentry
boxes.
Seventeen Up for Lilo.
OF the 21O male inmate of the iu-
stftution seventeen of them are muir
derers n serving life sentences.
There are others in for manslaughtnr
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 W three INT four
vCaIS. luCIc II IIOWSNeI, UGlMS0U
twenty and twenty-five prisoners who
are serving sentences from fifteen to,
eighteen years. But most of the pris-
oners here are what are known az.
"short termers."
To Pardon Female Convict.
Efforts are now being mad looking.
to the pardon of one of the female
prisoners, which. IL successful. which.
seems probable. will leave the fnstitu-
ton with but n woman prisoner.
According to the figures of Warden
Parmley about 10 per cent. of the
prisoners are second or third term
men.
OF the 20 male prisoners forty-hNe
are employed in the kitchen, dining
room, laundry or inside the peniten-
tiary proper on work connected WIN
the institution. OF the remainder 12O
are employed in the shirt factory, n
stalled less than a year ago and the
remainder are kept at work getting out
stone or working on the pe~nltentary
farm and garden in the summer time.
The Indications arc that the next
legislature will provide ways and
means for the establishment of u twine
factory. The men engaged in gettlhs
out stone could be put to work IN such
Il factory. and a large majority of the
people of the state desire the twine
factory installed.
1t Is Not a Reformatory..
The South Dakota penitentiary is not
n ~'reformatory'' in the pure sense of
the word. While the officials aim to
throw such influence round 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 Il m Semi-religious
services of a musical nature are held
quite often. The prisoners enjoy the
1attQr. and when n familiar hvmp O.
song is sung. and they are invited to
join in the singing, they respond with
Il will.
The crimes for which the prisoners
have been sent up cover about every
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 committsd.
Murder. granddaughter in different de-
grees, embezzlement. rape. forgery. ar
son. assault. perjury. counterfeiting.
illicit dIstilling. rObbing the mails, rob-
bling postof1ces. obliteratipg cattle
brands. mailing obscene matter, adul-
terry. returning false accounts North
Dakota deputy marshal padded expense.
~account). bigamy. aiding prisoner to
escape, assault to comm 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.
or the PIP prisoners in the paniten-
tiary thirty-sfx are government prison.
ers. is prisoners sent up, for fed
eral Tense by either South Dakota,
North Dakota or Nebraska, the Sioux
Falls penitentiary being the prison des-
fgnated for each OF these states for
federal prisoners. OF the federal pris-
0ners nine are from Nebraska.
No Las9er Fednest Prison.
However there will be no more re-
ceived from hat state as the. depart
n1ent of justice has recently issued an
eeder that in the future federal pris-
oners from Nebraska shall be. impris-
Oned at Lincoln. The nine Nebraska
federal prisoners will ave to- complete.
their terms hero as their sentence was
for certain periods i'm the Sioux Falls:
penitentiary.
In looking over the list Of prisoners.
the occupation. trade or profession fol-
lows each name. n it was III that
almost every profession and trade
known is represented. There was n
trade ana one profession conspicuous
by their absence and that is the trade
of printer and profession Of a Journal
list. There is not Il printer or Journal
list in the Sioux Falls p~enitentiary.
THN6S NcW uGNM IN
Sicax Falls. 8. D.. Dec. S.-Phiiip Nc
1ntyze. who is about to complete a term
in the pcnitentiary of Virginia for forgery.
and for whom the governor of South Da-
koss has issued q requisition upon the gov
crnor OF Virginia, has an extended police
record and is one OF the smootbest hank
suind:crs in the country.
Since his visit to South Dakota a year
ago. when he committed the cFime 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 Kalispel1. Mont: Ev-
erett. WASH: South Omaha. Neb.: Doug
las. ARK. and Ashland and Roseburg,
Orc.
KILLED ~ CARS,
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