The Democrat-sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1906-1935, 1907-01-24
VISITING
COMMITTEE
Report of Condition Of
Our BastileS.

To the Honorable f. z. Martin
Judge of the Probate Court in
and for the County of Hooking
and State of Ohio:
We the committee as a Board oi
County Visitors made our annual
visit to the various penal and
benevolent institutions of Hooking
county on Wedne sday, November
DIST, 1906, and beg leave to sub
NIT for your consideration the fol-
ing report
We first visited the County Jail
here in Logan, and must say that
we found it in fairly good condi-
tion, such, that it is credit to
Sheriff Williamson and his efficient
wife. We have always condemned
this jail building as being out of
date and really an unfit place In
which to incarcerate transgEessors
of the laws of the state, however
vicious or criminal they may be,
and we reiterate this statement
again, hoping that in the near
future our county authorities will
remodel this old bastiIe and make
habitable and credit to them
and to the county and the city of
Logan.
Gentlemen, the progress Of this
age in which we live demands this
at your hands, just as it does the
building of modern structure IN
which your courts are to be held
and IN which the business of the
county can be transacted in a
satisfactory manner.
We next visited the City Lock
Up. This we found in "A very lad
condition, foul and filthy, not any
worse perhaps than Oil previous
visits, but surely an unfit place
Cor any human being to occupy
for single night.
We have called attention to this
in former reports, but nothing
has been done to improve its con-
dition. We now make another APP
peal to the city authorities to bet
ter its sanitary condition, and wipe
outsthis crying disgrace to our
beautiful city,
We next visited the Children
Home and County Infirmary. At
both these institutions We were
well pleased with all that we saw,
and we wish to say here that we
made our inspection as thorough
as our time would permit, In
Qrovements that we inaugurated
Under the management Of the
former superintendent are being
carried to a euecessful completion
under the new management and it
affords the Board OF Visitors great
pleasure to be able to cOngra tulQte
the new superintendent and mat
gon of the infrmary and the mat
ron Of the Children's Home on the
success that seems the result Of
their labor and management.
But in connection, we wish to
say, that the need Of praise be-
longs to the Board of Directors
and the Board of County Commits
sioners, as well, for the assistance
and encouragement they have Civ
en- their employees in these insti-
buttons. The most noticeable i'm
proyement made within the last
few years is that of the installation
of an efficient system Of water
works, and in connection there
with, bath rooms with hot and |
cold water and sewerage system.
BY these means the health con
ditiOn of the inmates has been i'm
prove and the inside of both the
Home and the Infirmary can be
and are kept clean and sweet, free
from those offensive odors that we |
used to notice and comment on
But while we as a Board of i
Visitors are truly grateful TO those
Ia authority for these and other
Indispensable improvements that
We have suggested and that have
'esn made, we would respectfully