The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-12-17

and for moving picture shows. The father suspected one of his employees and had him arrested. This man told the police and the father what the ed a complaint against his son for Breaking and Entering. The young man was paroled In due time to a suitable position. About month later his mother wrote that she had taken John away from his work and pay him three dollars a week to be a good boy. found other employ ment for this young man and in- structed~ him that if he did not keep this position he would be returned for violating h's parole. He kept this place four months and then left. He was returned to the institution. married and has settled down, He has pleasant home, three children and a good trade. He has had his full release for two years.
 Another case will illustrate what mean by too bad home. A boy highway robbery In time was par oled. I visited hts home which was not fit for a paroled inmate to en- ter. The father and mother were both smoking clay pipes and three or four men were drinking. It was one of the most filthy houses have ever entered. I saw at once the cause of the boys downfall. He admitted to me that many a time he had gone home after days work and found his father and mother drinking and nothing for him to eat. He would then go out on the corner and shoot craps with the boys.
 Experience has shown that for the real work of the Reforniatory to be satisfactorily done the maximum term for which the first time crim-
 nal may be sentenced is very often insufficient. This sentence should he made actually indeterminate. While the reformatory in legal sense is oenal institution. the young men are not sent solely for punishment but rather to give time to consider. with helpful surroundings the certain re- suits of evil deeds While in the re- formatory a mans conduct is rated according to Industry, Skill. Study and Behavior. They are tauTht to work, they are given the advantages of school and required to make req sonable progress.
 The idea of a three months reward for Scholarship Industry and Skill originated with pr. Frank Moore. the present Superintendent. and as far institution. It has been given thor-s ough trial and is an incentive to ev- cry inmate who earnestly desires pa role and release to live up to the fuIl privileges thereby offered.
 A great many of our inmates are of the lower class. a large number being foreigners who get into trou- ble simply through ignorance others come from middle class families and some. from the best of homes. After dism ssal they secure places in all lines of work, as motormen and con ductors. as engineers. as stenograph- clans. farmers, chauffeurs. and in many other kinds of work. Almost all are anxious to let us know Of their success. Only the other day l received a letter which is a fair sam- ole of many that I get.
 MT. Charles s. Moore,
 Dear Sir:
 am steadily employed as chauf- feur and earn from $85 to $100 per month. I have not earned less than $50 a month since my release and l am putting the eggs away for future use.
 I am now married and would Ike to pay you a visit. I wish I could only see the day when all the boys were free like myself. I suffered very much during the fifty three weeks I was there and as long as have any common sense I shall do right. We have every reason from our ex- nerfence at this refornatory for be- lieving that in every life there is a better side. right prime pie. spark of goodness. It is duty to search out that better nature and develop t. Every parole system should be gov arned by that principle.