Bisbee daily review., 1913-03-04
PRISON INVESTIGATION
BRINGS UNANIMOUS REPORT

oAiHSS UNANIMOUS REPORT
40 enc who had an acquaintance
with the prominent citizens Of Flor
enee, VINO complained by petition to
The legislature OF the conditions exist
ins in Florence as a result of penitea
tiary cenvicts being allowed to APP
rear on the streets CT that town. cou,i
doubt the truth of the statements
made in the complaint
No one expected Of the iegisla-
tive committee. named to investieats
the truth of the petitions. ANYTHING
tut finding that would sustain the
complaints Of the petitions.
Notwithstanding the hurry of ST.
Eerintendent r. b. Sims to get into
print with the short and uglier word
liar in bis denial Of the truth Of tho
matters alleged in the Florence pc,
titions. the joint legislative commit
tee reported that conditions alleged
in these petitions were found 10 exist
and failed to endorse the declaration
Ct Sims that political hatred and jea.-
ousy was behind the complaints OF
the prison management. Evidently
Governor Hunt was deceived as 70
shat was going on at Florence. Iudg
ing from MS message TO the legisIa-
tire demanding an investigation ana
;Le one sent to the legislature ate
the evidence had been gwen by the
citizens Of Florence before the Iegis-
lStiye committee.
Not only did tbs legislative commit
ice find that the matters complaine
oi in the petitions OF residents {,
Florence we're real. but these cond.,
lions were condemned by the recon-
rendations made Tor laws that viii
prevent their recurrence in the ~
,ure. The committee asks for the err
actment OF a law that win prevent tha
state convlcts from appearing in citl-
7cns clothes in the future in either
Florence OF anywhere else, outside CT
.aside of the prison walls; the COM
uitteo also asks for Ia Y that wi
prevent a conyict from being made
trusty or honor man except on the rec
concentration of the board of parole
vIiiah is yet 10 be created; the com
aittee recommends that the sales Of
goods By the state TO employees or Oh
ncers OF the state be prohibited; the
committee also declares that prison
ers worked On state highways or on >
Irsop farm in the future be kept IN
der guard.
with such laws as are contempIat-
ed by the recommendation Of the sen
ators and Representatives who in
~es,igated the Humt-Sims administra-
ton Of the state prison there viii be
NJ mere armed convicts sent over the
state dressed in citizens clothes in
search OF escapes; there viii be no
u.ore such spectacle as thai o. kat
Bernard aaa murderer Eytinge TAX
'ng refreshments at Florence ice
cream parlor; there viii be no more
q aoar boys in attendance at the
circus or ~cUtting the pigeon wing
al dances in Florence OF anywhere
s,se outside Of the prison walls
with such restrictions the people Ct
he state ain agree aud lesTc that
,se governor and the prison superiu-
tenaent provide every possible hu-
rare treatment and eonGs;ra gor tho
unfortunate inmates Of thu state pris-
q ard that they be a.lmerist'd ia
cv,Fy way possible to becoHs good
AMI iaw abiding eitizens whca the
iaae saaH cone for their release from
The sentence imposed on them.
w 90 rot believe thai anyone in
Arlzona desires that unneces
sary humiliation be placed on th'
inasies Of the peuiterti4r5 Or an