Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-08-14
LAW IS LAW IN PRISON OR OUT
Warden McKenty of the Eastern Penenary the kenng
Senmentalty" That Masquerades Prison Reform Too
Much Science" Not Enough Religion
By HERBERT S. WEBER

Just as though you could get man to turn
| over a new leaf and have respect for the
law he had broken by letting him break the
law here. These prisoners learn by little OBJ
Ject lessons. They the only things they
have to learn blythe little things that hap
pen in prison.
This is what 1 believe; the law is the
law, whether 1t is big point or little point
that is at stake, and a man might just as
well not have gone to prison at all as to
have a chance to break it here"
While he refused to say anything about
Osborne, and whether he had done the right
thing or not, the warden made it plain that
he believed you could save a prisoner his
selt-respect without giving him undue liber-
ties lie said he thought a prison ought to
De IN the midst of populous communities, so
that the public could see how things were
managed there, and not stuck off in the
country cut of the reach of curious eyes
Things have to be done correctly in a CITY
with its million eyes and ears, with no i'm
proper roughness.
AS for letting prisoners go to funerals of
relatives, that was against the rules, and so
could not be done There were only three
ways man could get out of iail: bv betng
paroled; by due procedure; by being par
doned; or by habeas corpus. If they wanted
TO change the law to let men go to funerals
let them change it.
Prisoners Want No MoIlycoddline
But men don't want to be mollycoddIed "
said the warden, with a bang of the fist on
the table. Men want to be treated like men.
and prisoners are like other people What's
the use of this soldering over grown-un
people with gushing sentmentality? Make
no mistake about 1t; these fellows are NOT
sorry to be taught the difference between
right and wrong here, to take their medicine
ike men; and they thank you for it after
they get out and don't you forget it, And
they wouldn't thank you for slobbering and
gushing over them with sickening sentiment
tally. They know what brought them here
let them get the good out of it. Look at
this letter"
lie showed neatly written letter; and the
man that wrote 1t couldn't write when he
came to the Penitentary. The names arc
changed and everything else that could be-
tray the writer to his employers: the warda,
insisted on that
Mr.. Robert McKenty,
| thought would dron vou q In.
you know how l am getting along am
sun leaning on the everlasting arms os
Am leaulng an honorable and mn
right life, working every day at The abo.p up-
named place and getting good n,,a 1--we 1--we
God heard about Charlie ptcbip- the
mohueftul game against the bakers fThi
reference to prison basebaiD Taii
MN MN Rogers says keep up the good 9 gn
len len DICK that say don't hit Ionis 60 I Hos'
en- the cooks (prisoners on duty as cooI,.1
20 so right at them and don't snare eV1hsl, tll,
bakers because they know Vbst se inose
men mem Feil them 10 use that twist bau 20 20
Dall the Warden, by the way bad oSn s "a
80 Ptisohet now TO throW) on thosa b
eioi lde 'heg WIN win. Well Warden '.d,lis SIM
Iam nra,I,s you and yours are ali we'll
you. 'ihualy' God bless
Prisoners as Grown-up Children
Ahu yet these scientists come in here a.a
Try to tell me the Bible is onI,, b,.I ,sIs ana
iapies IKE Jack the Giant killer !. s" sats ~
"SIueh' lie said he believed m tha eu'
ana MS visitor said, yes. he did 80
.l'e'e Is any place where the Bibls -,
'Fuef' It would be hard to find ~. looAs
s1oFapie rules OF life are there. in nr,sa. M
ihs enforced and IN the sinn,s -, oe-
iash'oh already alluded to- The
pt'@on hAe those outside, are onl,. - N
up eniiaFen' ana It IS often good - w WI.
them that way. For example. ~. 'sa'
sala that there came little cosnplsi,.- 'aeh
rom time to time "He stole INV ~. ). nm
eiuht slYe me back this OF that ..,..-'l
MIN Prisoners accusing prisoners 7'i
wen say 20 them, How d. 49,
.'ssii'iss' ABOUT the man Who told s, - -,
ana ssAt you there9 And now you .,a..t -. -
me same way toward another man r.
shsaa every tine. I feel it's my ds1f., - .s ssss
g pan 70 these men the ruIss 81 -
ana they aze not uneFa4sfla fs.ss zzaAa'