Bisbee daily review., 1914-04-05
PROBE OF STATE
 INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL
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NfbhhAihfu AlViu tdh' AI consisting Of two hundred and sixty. nine vpewritten pages. 1 submit hereinbelow my findings:
 ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENDITURE
 a. Mintenance:
 l find from the records of the Tn. dustrial School that. taking for easy and down to date comparison, the month of February of the years 1919 and 1914. the following analogy.
 The average number of inmates is shown in each case to be the same i. Q. one hundred nineteen. yet the net daily per capita cost inoreased from $l.O3 in February. 1913, to s160 in February. 1914. or ffty.hve per eentum. In other words. for every dollar expended one year ago there Is now being expended one dollar and fifty-flve cents.
 b. Improvements.
 There has been expended for i'm. provements at Fort Grant up to Feb. ruary 2S. 1914, the sum or sIu.7s2.55. h' 'fiNfhNf ul9NlNNfN Ailul ol HoHlt buildings condemned by Architect Royal w. Ieseher. employed by the Board of Control to inspect same. sev. eral hundreds of dollars had previ- ously been expended in repairs
 The testimony Of Mir. J. A. Pitts. an employe, in charge of the brick and cement work. is to the effect that work performed by him in this line is only about seventy per cent effici. ent, due to the conditions under which he is forced 10 operate. and that in his opinion. the same conditions apply to all construction and repair worl, done al the Institution. In other words. the State has expended thirty per cent more money than was necessary for improvements made I do not say that the Superintendent is responsible for this waste of the States money. but the blame belongs somewhere. and should be placed.
 2. SANITATION.
 The evidence shows that toilet and laundry equipment is insufficient and Inadequate. These conditions are sus. ceptible to the spread of disease. Weeks have elapsed between baths and change of underclothing of in. mates. Here. also. there may be. at least, q division of responsibility.
 3. DISCIPLINE.
 The evidence discloses that mn standard rules of discipline have been established. While corporal punish. ment has. until recently. been rarely invoked, the Superintendent has been quoted as ordering the guards 7o Iake-a club to the boys. knock them down or shoot their heads on" for in. fractions of rules. The testimony also shows that boys were stripped ann given as many as twenty-five Iashes with a strap about four inches wioe and two feet long; that boys nave frequently been handcufei 10 iron hitching posts on the grounds. remain. ing in that position for several bours regardless of the weather conditions In case of the smaller boys the hand being fastened to the hitching ring is said to ba in position somewhat above the boys head. doubtless re. tarding circulation. This appears to be common punishment.
 The evidence and the records of the school disclose that boys have been sentenced to confinement in the guard house for periods of from ten to forty. i've days on diet of bread and water a full meal being administered every ten days. This diet applies also to those confined in the dingy under. ground cells, recently completed. As result of an. exclusive diet of white bread and water. and absence of sui. ficient physical exercise, inmates have been known to pass a period of many days without process of excretory elimination, and have thereafter re- quired hospital treatment. Immed,. ately upon release from confinement