The Nome daily nugget., 1911-03-06
HOW COLORADO HELPS HER
 CRIMINALS.

1
 In the Colorado state penitentiar,
 there are some seven hundred and lift,
 prisoners. over half of this numbe, are outside the walls, the free wind upon their faces. their white tents
 pleasantly flecking the green of many a mountain valley and grassy plain. and never a sign 10 show that they are the condcmnees of society No striped ] ticking shamcs their backs. they sing i and laugh after the man,r of free mon as they swing their roads past granite ledges or stack alfalfa on leased lands. and neither during the day nor through the night do armed guards stand around in cullen watchfulncss In these road camps and farm colonies are criminals of every degree and term crooks. highwaymen. murderers, train robbers and border desperadoes-yet the sole precaution against flight. the one thing that holds them back from escape. Is the word of honor" thry pledged the warden a, they l,ft their cells for the open
 In wholesome environment. happily and healthfully employed. they grow ,n mental. moral and physical strength. wind and sun washing them clean m mind soul and body. Instead of a dead weight "n the back or the tax payer they stand for themselves. pr, duciug and developing. ever wurki .g to the reformaton and rce-ueratiun that sn,i't> intended Judged from tho old and Stiu accepted ,rmmalogi .lI| viewpoint. the scheme f~ dang,rrq.., revolutionary. and yet tJ works n.I j.. -1Jwu by the f, that less ,l.am ,lr half of one Der ..u ,.,l,. lr,E,u .aI,l l:d attempted @ cape
 It is from the farms and th, road camps that th, Colorado convict goes back To the world There i- uo prison pall"r on his face. no hate in his heart nor does he hurr> to the city. eager c. Aid. him>,If iu th, ~nm- until such tune. d~ hc can take m"r. cunning tol ot thc society that has 'brnk,u" hlm 'l"ar-eycd. burned brown shoulders -puarcd eager tu talk, "anuth,r chance" he ends hiS term m health and strength. and. personally aided b, th" warden. books for country job" that will strengthen him in his good resolutions
 Tn" doing away wih th. armed guards appealed to Warden Tynan from two ~tandpomt~ In the first place. there was tha uo, uconstdcranle matter of cxpcu~e and secondly. h, felt that th, continual m,uac, of guns and rev"lyer- made for resentment and loNolt H.. had hauiShod armed k,cp- CTS from prison ward and erlIhousr hy appealing tu the conyicts' own fairness and common souse. and he saw no req son why some similar plan should mot b" worked out in connection with the road camps and farm colonies. And
 
 into operation. simply asking each man for a personal pledge uot to attempt ta escape. He had seen Judge L.indse, send boys to reform schools without escort. trusting their word of honor. and even out of his brief experience il | had come [" him that criminals. after all. We're only bad boys grown up"
 Today over seven hundred acres are | being farmcd great stretches of the most beautiful scenic highways in th, world have been scientifically built. and more are building. and three hundred and fifty men are working in the open. each day coming into closer accord with the standards that society sets for her decent, honest memhers-Delinea- .or Magazine