The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-05-11
REFORMATORY site
,ouuIssIoN SELECTS LAND NEAR
T0VN OF MONROE.
j, ,, Institution is For Persons
~ p.tween Ages of FL and 80
Years Convicted of Crimes
Than UNDERGRADUATES to
Erect Buildings.

o.++1o MAY 1.-THE commission
oea ontod nv Gov. Mead to select a
aFpUsn +he Washington state reforma-
sIs 40 turned from Snohomish county
TOT! Iiobt where it negotiated on be-
a2 ~ If If the state, the purchase of a
Dsli consisting of 800 acres of suitable
SUM- noar Monroe. The consideration
anu ,rod in the deal is $23, 200. which
iD'U as balance of about $1,000 avail
iV hlo for the building. An appropria-
a :on If $50 900 was made by the legis-
i ,atu for site and building and $780,
nm for maintenance.
wv commemorative Frank G. Jack ION,
-. .bp Fortyseventh legislative dis
. =. anthor of the bill creating the
w. aw state institution, discussing the
site selected, said:
NV .Tbe commission feels that no bet
l.. oboice could have been made for
s0ob an institutions location than the
s;.o Of Monroe. More than a dozen
,;t0. in all have been carefully in
. 'nacted and it was not without care
ri consideration of the merits OF each
+bot We reached a decision.
One Mile From Monroe.
1.-THE site is distant about a mile
from the town of Monroe. More than
IN acres of the ground is cleared,
movements valued at about So, 500
are included in the purchase price,
ond the land could not be better for
cultivation. The next move to be
made is the drawing of plans for the
buildinps to be erected on the site. 1
think the balance out of the $50, 900
appropriated will be ample for tempo
rary structures. There is large de-
posit of excellent clay on the ground.
from which can be manufactured the
brick for the future state reformatory,
if necessary.
The government of the Washington
state reformatory will be vested in a
board of managers, consisting of five
members to be appointed by the COVER
nor. A superintendent will be ap-
pointed by the board, who will have
full charge of the Institution. In ad'
dition to the superintendent there will
be a physician and surgeon in chief, a
druggist and necessary medical assist
ants.
Inmates to Erect BUILDINGS
chaplain will also be appointed.
The bill specially provides that the
labor necessary for the construction OF
buildings and shops and the manufac.
ture of materials, therefor. the enclos.
ure of the grounds and such other i'm
provements as may be necessary shall
be performed by the inmates as far as
practicable.
Male criminals between the ages Of
l6 and 30 will be confined in the re.
tormatOry. Any court in its observe
ton may sentence to the reformatory
any male person between the ages Of
q and 30 whom said court may deem
amenable to reformatory methods, pro
Vlded that no person convicted OF
murder in the first or second degree
shall be sentenced or transferred tc
the Institution. The bill also pro
Ndes that it shall be the duty of the
warden of the state penitentiary al
Malia Walla and the board of control
10 select from the inmates of the peni
tentiary such convicts as shall al
nearly as may be come within the re
qulrements of the act as to age an6
crime.
Inc primary object of the new insti
'ution Is set forth in section 20 of tn,
act which says:
IL shall be the duty of the boari
VI managers to maintain such contro
O'er all prisoners committed to theil
custody as shall prevent them from
eU,m.mlttlng crime, best secure theil
osn support and accomplish their ref