The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1910-10-28
STATE PENlTENTlARY.

In no department Of the State has
greater work been done than In the
Penitentiary.
Under this administration the entire
penitentiary has been renovated. ven
tilated and placed upon an absolute
scientific sanitary basis.
One OF the new reforms Instituted
under Mr.. Codding at the suggestion
of the Governor was the abolition OF
metal plates and dishes and the intro
duction of queensware service for ia
BILE use.
Eight hundred and fifty vermin In
tested cells were thoroughly cleansed'
whitewashed and painted
Better food Is being served the men
than even before at cost to the state
In money OF 10 cents day.
Owing to the greater comfort OF the
quarters and the better food the dis
cipline of the prisoners at the peniten-
tiary under this administration Is bet
ter than ever, and the Warden gets
an average of 25 per cent more work
per day out OF theri.
Humane treatment is one OF the
strong policies of the administration
at the penitentiary
Prisoners working in the shops and
mines are now given two hours per
week for outdoor recreation. by
this innovation the death rate at the
penitentiary has been enormously re-
duced
The number of inmates Of the hospi-
tai has been reduced more than hall.
This is caused by better food and bet
ter treatment and as result OF this the
State gets vastly more labor from the
men.
Better quarters and better food In
the Insane Wards Of the penitentiary
with three meals day instead of two
has resulted in the return of nearly
half OF the insane patients to work
Warden Codding found one out OF
five patients In the penitentiary afflict-
ed with tuberculosis He combated
the disease with great vigor, the re-
suit of which is that not a single new
case of tuberculosis has appeared dur
Ing the year.
In the Women's Ward great work
has been done The buildings have
been overhauled. plastered, painted
and electric lighted and a night school
established. A magnificent laundry
we'll lighted and ventilated and made
a at place for women to work mas
been established.
Ten unnecessary jobs have been
abolished at the penitentiary at saw
ing of $4,50000 year.
There has been a general overhaul
ing of buildings, new roofs are being
put on, paint applied and repairs made
wherever necessary. Nothing, is vast
ed at the peuitentiary or allowed to de-
cay.
A dairy herd is now maintained at
the pententiary. Fifty COWS are fur
nishing all the milk for the prisoners
use. More than Sl.100 spent for milk
previously has been saved to the State.
Twenty acres of sorghum and vast
quantities of wheat, potatoes and 9TH
er products have been produced under
this administration to cheaper the
cost OF maintaining the prisoners.
BY the adoption of business methods
the Irvine Plant under this admins.
tration has been able to sell all the
Irvine left over from the previous ad-
ministration and all manufactured dur
> ing the present year. At the present
time the Irvine Plant is paying a very
, nice profit to the state.
, The prison mine is producing $751;
: 900 worth of coal each month at the
present time. 1t is said to be one of
the best managed mines In the west.
1t is now lighted with electricity and
! furnished with safety appliances
wherever needed. II gives 5000 tons
of coal per month to State Institutions.
The penitentiary brick plant is now
+, turning out half a million brick per
= month New machinery has been
used. New methods adopted and the
!plant is not only up to date, but II is
able to furnish nearly all the brick
needed in the building of the various
State Institutions.
In the management Of the peniten-
tiary the main object Is to make 1t as
much of a reformatory as possible. II
aims to send men back into~civil life
better fitted to take the place Of men
and perform all the duties Of good
citizenship.
The policy Of the administration has
heen to treat the prisoners as men and
eed them as men end when this is
|, en- II is exp % the men shall do
, full days - in exchange. which
. they do.
!, Politics have b ID eliminated from
tNe re entity Fey and every
! Y-a IL sy--pO ID to give his entire
y time to the ia