Arizona republican., 1913-08-17

| port themselves and thelf famllie 1 when they are again free.
 l We furnish comfortable sleeping ] places and ampIe facilities for bath l ing. All the new cells are light and airy. They are provided with a 1 spring mattress cot, a porcelain wash 1 bowl and seat. plenty of water. ln 1 electric light. a shelf for books and 1 toilet articles. and catalogue of the 1 5000 books in the library; and it may 1 be well to state that each inmate has the privilege of drawing two books
 each week. The old cells, it is true. are not as convenient. but we are making them as sanitary as possible and hope soon to reconstruct them, | using the prisoners to do the work. | The hole. that is the dark cell,-- with solitary confinement, has been absolutely abolished.
 As to food we have a substantial, appetizing menu-varied each day. w. do not provide delicacies except for the sick in the hospital. But VIC
 have the best of meat and vegetables, cooked by the most approved meth ods. and coffee three times a day for
 those that wish it Our bakery can
 not be excelled in the country in the
 quality of bread it turns out, and twice a week, for variety, biscuit are provided in plenty. The work is all
 done by. the prisoners themselves. and as our buying is by wholesale, this bill of fare-better than most of the inmates had at home-costs the state on an average of only ten cents day for each person.
 Little Discipline Needed
 As to prison discipline, very little iS NK-ith a housed decently clothed. and gener- ously fed-and, I might add, furnish ed with work so that there is little opportunity for satan to find his pro- verbal mischief for idle hands tO do We make and repair all our own clothing; we erect and repair our buildings; we keep our grounds in order and have both a vegetable and a flower garden inside the walls.
 We have g factory for making bind ing tWine which we sell to the farm CTS of Indiana a a reasonable price, to the great disturbance of the bind ing twine trust. We have also 2 printing office which provides work for few, and a trade. Then these industries are supplemented by a certain amount of contract labor un- der such regulations and oversight that the prisoners are not abused CT insulted As a part of the ''ratiOns" the inmates have what tobacco they want. and they manufac cture it them selves. We purchase about s3000 worth of leaf each year and on the discipline side l consider it an eX- cellent investment. We have tke eight-ho day for work in winter, and the seven-hour in summer. A full hour is allowed for the noon day meal and plenty of time for breakfast and supper.
 These various provisions and rogu- 1ations for comfort, health and indus trious habits. I consider an essential part of the prison discipline They tend to produce orderly. law biding Ina bits and feelings in those who are subjected to them, or. I might better say have the privilege of their influ- ence. I believe, too, that by develop ing the sense of manhood, such up lifting conditions cause the real pun ishment-namely, deprivation of hber- ty-to he more keenly felt.
 AS formal discipline. I believe the hope of reward is far more efficaciOus than the fear of punishment. So we have ablished the third class" which
 used to consist of the ''refractorJ'
 cases Under our present system We
 have no use for it. We now have only two cla asses; the first consists
 of those who observe all the prison rules. and to the members of which all paroles and pardons are issued; the second comprises those who haze some lapses from virtue. The latter are placed upon a thirty-day proba- ton, and if conduct is good during l that time they are restored to the first class. If not, the probation s 1 extended another thirty days.
 1 Inasmuch as paroles and pardons ! require the evidence of twelve months | credit as a condition of their issuance. l it will be seen that the monthly period furnishes a powerful encouragement | to those who occasionally lapse from 1 perfect conduct These encoura Se- ments are all the discipline We find necessary Of course. our deputies I and guards are firm. as we'll as kind. We will not permit them to be either | lax or brutal
 | Another factor which we have de- [ fvelOped along common sense lines :s | the religious instruction and the recreative features. We have large chapel used both for devotional and entertainment purposes. It is so fit Ited that it can be and is, used for tboth Protestant and Roman Catholic services, at different hours, and our tchaplain and visiting priests and Eclergymen are sincerely devoted to the spiritual interests of our congrega : tiOns.
 | We have also a system of credits for monthly good conduct When Itwelve of these credits have been earned they entitle the prisoner to a Icredit braid which he wears upon his fslieeve: five of these credit braids Ientitle him to gold braid So a Iprisoner wearing a gold braid and Ian ordinary credit braid has tangible I Testimony of seventy-two months-six fyears-of good conduct This does Enot mean that the seventy-two months