The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1909-05-16

occupied In 1905. The second ipstitu-
ton, the United States Pe%nitentiary at
Atlanta. Ca, was opened for prisoners
Carly in 1902. These two and a little
prison on Mcneil Island in Puget Sound
arc used for male convicts whose terms
erceed one year.
To the Atlanta prison are sent the con-
victs from parts of the New England and
middle States. and all those sentenced
from the United States courts in Vir-
.ginia, the Carolinas, Georgia, Florida,
Alabama, Mississippi. Louisiana, Ken
lucky. Tennessee and from certain parts
Of Arkansas and Texas. 1t is to this
institution that Charles W. Morse was
s~eptenced. All Federal prisoners from
The District Of Columbia whose sentences
are for more than two years are also
sent to Atlanta.
About one-half Of the Governments
prisoners are held in these three prisons,
the remainder being confined in various
sails, State prisons and reformator1es.
The female prisoners are inCarcerated
principally in the State institutions at
Noundsville. W. Va; at Columbus, Ohio,
and at Nashville. Tennl
The United States p~enitentiary at
Atlanta is a type OF the best of modern
penai institutions. 1t is situated in a
pretty suburb Of Atlanta. about our miles
from the business centre OF the city, on
. beautifully rolling reservation of s2i
cores. One hundred of these acres are
under cultivation. about eighty are used
for grazing and the remainder Of the
reservation is occupied by buildings and
woodland.
On the farm are raised by prison labor
oil the vegetables used in the institution
during the growing season and some
vegetables, like sweet potatoes, for the
intire years supply. For the cultivation
Of this farm and for general work about
the prison there are in the great barn
lhirty-odd work mules, three horses,
thirty or forty COWS which furnish the
nilk supply for the prison tables and
about $50 ghbred hogs which
supply part OF the meat used for the
, prison family.
Buildings OF brick and granite and
marble have been erected largely by
I prison labor TO house the convicts. to
provide room for the administration
o6aoss and for the various shops in which
= many OF the convicts are employed.
New buildings are now being constructed.
The $50 cells are being increased to 1,lso,
new and thoroughly equipped admins
tratiop Offices are included in the new
plans and when completed the buildings
will face a pretty park Of several acres
1eading to the street.
The main building, part of the new
Oonstruction, faces north. From either
and OF this building, which will include
the new cell houses. extends a wall Of
reinforced concrete four feet thick at the
base and narrowing to two feet at the top.
The'top has been rounded so that no hook
may catch to aid in escape and it may
nsver be used as a promenade, The wall.
LAO feet in length lin addition TO the
sally port walls. 800 feet long. through
which a railroad switch track enters the
grounds). together with the main build
4nGs. encloses PAST acres. Within this
enclosure are all the prison buildings
0aospting the big barn.
Along the top of the wall at regular
! Intervals are seven guard towers. Oo-
tagopal IN shape M ten feet in diameter.
Jthsy are reached by stairs within the wall.
- which entrance is from the outside.
Zach tower 10 surrounded by a narrow
halfway protected by a hand rail and Is