Arizona republican., 1911-10-11
PRISONERS PAROLED
 UNDER NEW SYSTEM
A NEW PRACTICE BEING TRIED
 OUT AT FLORENCE.
Experiment. Along Lines That Have
 Been Satisfactory Elsewhere.

1 eIIOT SlOdn ana lne DOdFu O1 control
 to the position of parole clerk in the
 territorial prison. His particular work
 is to assist Captain Rynning in laying
 the foundation for a parole system | based on conservative lines with the view of testing the value of such work | to society. Unless this work demon- ] StrateS that it is also a positive value | to the territory in dollars and cents
 outside of the question of raising the standard of citizenship, it must fall. It ! is hoped that sufficient headway will 1 be gained by the time the first legis- ! lature meets to aid the incoming ad- ministratiOn to legislate wisely upon
 this subject
 In various places in the United States McCrary has been associated
 with humane societies, juvenile courts. associated charities and boards of par | ole. besides serving in police work mu- nicipal. county and federal He was
 the active officer of the Kansas City board of pardons which was succeed
 ed by board of public welfare. Dur
 ing the first two years of the last named boards work. the board parOled prisoners who if they had stayed until the expiration of their sentences. would have cost the city in guarding. feed ing and housing. S65, 1000. These par oled prisoners earned during the per iod of their parole. $166.OOO.
 The board of public welfare has an employment bureau and sees that the money earned by married men on par ole gets home to their families This is a phase of municipal work which may interest the gentlemen who are now working on a new charter for the city of Phoenix. The work re- ferred to in Kansas City. says Mir McCrary. can be very easily applied to the reformatory. penal and charitable institutions of the new state of Ari- zona.
 MT McCrary has been at work for some weeks. studying the cases of convicts thought worthy of parole. and studying their conduct. habits and per sOnality, securing their stories and proving their facts. all of which is a | part of the work of dealing with the parole question. and on the various phases of which much of an enter |
  ture could be written. The first fruits | of his labor are shown in the parole | of eight prisoners by Governor Sloan | yesterday, the paroles being issued on | the joint recommendation of Superin | tendent Rynning and NIT. MCCrary, ap- | proved by the board of control. In | each case there is much of human in | terest not brought out by the courts | which pass only on the crime incl | dents. but which all weigh in consid- l ering the cases.
 Jerome Edwards was received at tha 1 prison in November. 1908, from Gila | county under a fifty-year sentence for a crime that can not well be dis | cussed but the circumstances and | conditions affecting the prisoner, in | the opinion of those who have studied | his case, warrant parole on condition | that he place himself in the hands | of his best friend who is named in the parole. and reports monthly to the superintendent. his condition. employ ment, habits, etc. through this next | best friend who must approve and sign the report
 Convict No. &137 is a young man with no previous criminal record. a man of university education, who in n moment of conviviality with friends. made the mistake of uttcring a bogus check. He was received at the pen November 21, 1909. under a sentence of three years. He is rc- leased on conditions similar to the case above mentioned. and particularly l that he shall hereafter refrain from the use of liquor. His ramc is with held for the reason that he has been offered a position of trust for which his technical education fits him. in an Arizona city.
 F.. D. Lee was received from this county October 2S. 1910, under a sen tence of IS months for assault with l deadly weapon. The finding in his ease Is that he is petty criminal. impossible to reform. is not a citizen ,f Arizona and agrees to leave the territory and remain away for the rest of his life and should he return ne VIII be arrested and he has agreed .o serve in such case. three times the { original sentence. His term is about ( o expire and should he serve if in { 'ull it is believed it would only be a natter of short time until he would )e back in prison on some other petty offense. It is therefore good l 'lddance to make such a bargain with Jim while it can be dore.
 Domingo Ruiz was received at the ( prison April II, 1910, from Yuma. I nder four years sentence for as J ault with a deadly weapon. He is l
 citizen of Mexico and agrees to go O his own country and remain out idle of Arizona for life In this , ase, as in all where release is on } imilar terms. circulars bearing his , icture and description will be filed } n the offices of all the county and , police in the state. so. that , hOUld he return he may be appre- ( ended for violation of his parole 2 CorneliO Lopez was received at the I May s, 1900, under I year sentence, from Pima r ounty. for assault with q deadly I 'eapon. He has been outside as $ rusty. a hostler, almost from his in- : arceratiOn, and is now growing old, $ nd agrees to go to friends in Mex s 'o. He could have run away any s me. had he elected to do so. $ Cirilo Ortego. admitted December T