The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-10-09
|DlCTnENT MADE
Of RICHMOND JAIL
city Does Not Deal nationally
With Crime Nor With
Physical Ills.
COMMITTEE MAKES REPORT
City Home Should Be on Farm.
Tail Well Managed but
Principle Wrong.
C0llMlTTEE MAKES REPORT

With all possible emphasis. the Rich
nnond City Committee. IN It's report 10
the STATE Board of Charities ana Correc-
tfon. asserts that the jail prisoners OF
Richmond should be removed to a farm
and there be made 10 Work In the
open air. In potent words, the eommit.
tee makes this striking statement: II
Minnea polls. with a daily average OF
$50 men and twenty-five women, can
save the municipality $5o,eoo weary
with her workh6use and cure sc per
cent of her DRINKS. surely Richmond.
with her daily average OF li5 men
and thirty women. should at least
make a start towards dealing ration
ally with her delinquents.'
Cure for the body and the morals ID
the central idea Of the report. jail
inmates cannot be cured OF tupefcuio-
ais. Il is argued. Nor can crime oe
cured unless the sufferer from the
moral disease can be studied and re-
moved from the surroundings which
arc the largest causative factor.
Loeatios Very Bad.
~ to the Richmond City Jail, IT ID
found well managed and clean. "a Ihe
character of the food Is good and It's
quantity sufficient But it is not moa,
ern. II the city must have jail.
SAYS the committee. it should have one
which approaches modern ideas. lts
surroundings are adtudged especially
unfortunate, tending to make 1t reai
pIace Of punishment. 1t is surrOunded
nv every possible unfortunate conoi-
ton If there is a sing'e corrective
or Informative idea in the minds OF
the people responsible for the jars
location, there could within the linn
its Of the city be found" according t"
the visiting committee, mo moro inap-
propriate place in which to develop II.
Coming to the City Home, the spirit
OF the management is praised But the
city has not done its part. The tuoer-
cular patients should be sent to tho
country and treated under modern con-
dittons, instead Of by medieval rules.
The committee notes with satisfaction
that the Council committee recognizes
the need, and hopes that the remedy
viii soon be found.
RepOrt Of C0nm1ttee.
The text of the report is as follows:
Richmond, Va, September 80. 1SlS.
Dr.. J. T. Mastin. Secretary state boa.o
Of Charities and Correction. Rich
rnond, Va:
Dear sir.-The Richmond City
Committee Of the State Board
Of Charities and Correction. hav-
ing visited the city JAN anu ."S
City Home. in addition to the detaileo
.tat.ments herewith Enclosed, renders
the following report:
City Jail-L0eatioD.
At the outset. comment on the 1oea-
ticn Of the City Jail is distinctly IN
order. Down in deep ravine 1t 10
bounded on the north by long line OF
new stables, on the northeast by the
CITY Incinerator. with its accompany
ing odors. IN the east by the open
sewer known as Shsckoe creek, On
the south by a lot OF stables mellow
,rjth age on the southwest and wesi
bv "the neighhorhood-" long recognized
as the redlight district of the city.
and. above ALL shutting cut the iisn.
and air of heaven, s. the Mars1'aii
Street yiaduct with its rumhifns cars
9,verv artificial external condition
corceiva bic is present to make the SEA-
ting of the fail of Richmond q place
Of punishment par excellence H.