Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-10-25

them interested in their own welfare
and showing them that they win be
allowed TO help themselves. ] am able
10 build up spirit OF self-respeei
I which when these men leave the
prison viii make them take an inter
est In the affairs OF the community In
which they will live"
Many Make Ornaments.
While Sheriff Jarrett chatted the
men were sitting about the prison
yard, singing. telling stories. or busy
az work upon some toy or piece of
decorative work Some of them carve
shells into fantastic and attractive
shapes, others work horse hair into in.
/ tricate chains, and some. as the tin.
smith, make horn canes.
The latter require a week Of
steady application for completion The
horn is softened in the fire, cut into
square chunks and through the middle
OF the chunks stout steel rod is
passed. Then the horn has to be fled
away by hand. and the whole rough
surface polished for many hours be-
fore the work is complete.
This work Of the prisoners brings
them often a considerable income.
One man has made $50 in COM
paratiyely short term. Others have
lsums ranging from 800 down and
they use part of this money to keep
them in little Injuries with which the
prison does not furnish them.
Shortly after. 100 the men were
sent to their cells. The old custom
was to confine them at 4:45. which
kept them in the cells, dark and with
out light to read by. for more than
IL hours at stretch. Now they are
In the cells hardly more than eight
hours
Cell Doors Open AZ Night.
Men must have an opportunity to
sleep IL they are to do real work the
next day. Is one Of Jarrett.s maxims,
and as q result he sees that the cells
are not allowed to become too hot for
comfort. The doors of the inner cells
fare left open upon the halls. and. a
free current Of air cireulates. As q
result there II practically none of the
disturbance In the night which former
| ly kept all the prisoners from sleep
because one or twosrestless men were
/
and yelling for More air!"
In the morning the men are unlock.
ed az . O'Clock and after a
breakfast as hearty as the supper. are
formed into lines, searched and start.
ed out for their places Of work.
At the site of the new territorial
prison, modern building which will
accommodate 500 or GOO men. 62 pris-
Ioners are working at tasks for which
paid :laborers would need q daily wage
Iof $3.50. At the quarry 20 men work.
At Makikij the government nursery
the armory, for the board of health
in various places, the library, the PAL
ace grounds, and the waterfront,
groups Of from 20 to two men work
without guard or luna.
No Guards for Workers.
1t Is a triumph Of the new system
that these prisoners can be permitted
to go out and work by themselves,
raise no trouble during the day and
come back at night. Some OF them
are men who are in. for a life sentence.
Every day the sheriff makes the round
to all the sites where the men are
working.
AT Punchbow1 is a camp of 90 men.
They are cainped out like any body OF
pleasure seekers. One guard CD looks
after them. They are cleaning up
the ground which viii soon be used
as the National Guard rifle rang9
All over the irregular plateau men
are cutting down trees and cactus and
carting away the rubbish. Much OF IL,
Is taken back to the jail for ftiels
Where formerly the coal used at the.
jail ran up to a ton week the prison
now purchases hardly q ton In two or
three months.
These men at Punchbowl work by
themselves They are put on their
honor. and II has come to-
many oil them first with a.
shock and then With q thrill
of pleasure to know that there are al
few people in the world who still think;
them honorable They respond to the
trust manfnlly. From these open
camps nol one has ever attempted to
escape. They fear to do So because
they know they would draw down upon
their. head the wrath OF their fellow
prisoners. men who do not intend to
be deprived Of these great privileges
because one or two eof their number.
wish 10 have leg room.
Stay Away Al, West<s
Greater than the triumph of the
Punchbowl camp, however, is the
Round Top establishment. where 3S
men under the direction of two fore
men are cainped miles from the pris-
on in the heart of the mountains, lab
oring on road. Formerly these men
were brought back and forth to work
every day and working under many
guards they took no interest in their
work. Furthermore the time taken
in. travelling to and from the jail
left them an extremely abbreviated
day Now they are taken to the pris-
on on Saturdays and brought back to
the camp on Monday morning. 1t
leaves them q week clear for work
and an outing besides. and they ac-
complish three times as much as the
gang which worked there under the
old regime.
Indicative of the new spirit of the
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