Norwich bulletin., 1909-12-10
OANIELSON AND PUTNAM NEWS.
JAIL-oEEIcIALs DENY IT.
Claim That Charge from WiIlinsntie Has No Foundation-Facts Cited.

An article Bad Ones Allowed to Escape" which recently appeared m a Willimantic paper, in reference to the Windham county jail, is looked upon in this section as an unwarranted ex- aegeration of th. real facts ana the insinuation that the county officers Tn charge of the jail are more anxious to make money than to safeguard the prisoners as worthy of only those un- familiar with the management or the institution, or issued as q yelled at- tempt to cause adverse comment TOT political purposes
 The trustworthiness of the statement that it seems that the anxiety to make a good showing is tending to make the jail an easy mark for class of prisoners who have a disposition to walk out of it's jurisdiction" is refuted by the facts.
 During the last six years there have been 2,400 prisoners committed to the
 Windham county jail from the inferior and superior courts It is today and has been the custom since the jail was located in Brooklyn, in 1920, to work prisoners outside the jail, on county
 property, on the highways and for the farmers in and around Brooklyn, This ] is done with as much care and safety as possible without the use of ball and chain or clog, which Is not used un- 1 less a prisoner attempts to escape or 1 does escape and is retaken.
 Out of all the prisoners employed at | labor outside the jail for the last six years there have been 19 to escape and not be retaken, and two others are serving time in other jails and will be returned to Brooklyn when their terms
 expire to finish their sentences and do
 additional time for escaping.
 ] It is not generally considered that any | prisoner sentenced to a county jail IS a vary bad one" They have certainly | not been charged with high crimes, for 1 if guilty they would have been sent to ! the state prison
 There are some instances where resi- ! dents of the county have been commit ! ted and regarded as trusty prisoners and have escaped. There are others | who have been held as prisoners at | Brooklyn that were wanted in other ! places, but this fact was not known to | the officers of the jail. Had it been | known such prisoners would have been l worked inside and delivered over to the | Lroper authorities at the expiration of | their terms.
 | There is no time at the jail when ] every effort to prevent the escape Of | prisoners is not fully exercised and it l is equally true that every effort is
 mane. regardless of expense to the | county. to apprehend any prisoner that ! | the officers in charge. All of this is | said on the authority of the officials | directly connected with the Jail, who
 were asked for information as to the | truth of the charges contained in the article referred to, and notwithstand- | ing that it has been said that "the jail | officials. when notified where an es- capped prisoner could be found. said i that he was not worth looking for and
 they were not going to bother looking
 for him."
 Body Still Unidentified. | Though many persons viewed the | body of the man found dead by Dr. M | s. Warren near East Killingly, wed nesday he remains unidentified at the
 undertaking rooms of Louis E. Ken
 nedy on Furnace street. Among those
 who viewed the body Thursday were representatives of different insurance companies. and of all those that have looked at the man none remember ol
 ever having seen him before.