The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1915-01-08
GET UNJUST TERMS
PRISONERS CASES CONSIDERED
BY CHARITIES BoARp-BlEN.
NAL REPORT ON FILE.
OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
From the Capital City, the Various
State Institutions and from
Many Different Parts Of
the Sunshine State.

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Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Pierre.-That many men are unjust
ly sentenced to the penitentiary, is
the holding of the state board Of
charities and corrections in its bien'
NAL report to the governor. The re-
port says:
With all due respect to the courts
of our state, we are thoroughly con.
vinced hat there are many men who
have and who are now serving time
in u state penitentiary who are un.
justly punished by so doing. A great
many of the people sent to the peni
Tertiary are those who are nonresi.
dents of the state or of the commun'
ity in which the crime for which they
are punished was committed"
The board recommends that the in.
determinate sentence act of the state
be extended to v all crimes except
murder and treason, and that no fixed
sentences be pronounced ave for con-
viction on these charges; that when
q prisoner is sent to the penitentiary
his commitment papers be accom-
panied by the names of the presiding
judge, the prosecuting attorney, the
attorney for the defense, the jurors,
and the witnesses sworn at the trial,
along with a copy of the testimony
and that of the charge of the judge,
and all record of the past life Of the
prisoner which can be secured. The
board Endorses the farm policy at the
penitentiary for open-air work for hon.
OF convicts; condemns the shirt con.
tract at that institution. and asks that
it be wiped out at the end Of the pres
ent contract, March 10, next, and that
the twine plant be enlarged to care
for men now working in the shirt fac.
tory, and for the farm workers in the
winter season. The board showed as
grounds for expansion of that industry
that the state plant turns out prac-
tically three million pounds of Irvine
each year, while the state uses fifteen
million pounds.
The equipment for are of the boys
and girls st the state training school
is declared to be inefficient, and a re-
quest is made for an appropriation to
provide equipment to give the boys
and girls training which will help
them after they leave that institution.
The report of the state parole Of
ficer indicates that it is his opinion
the parents are to blame for many of
the boys going to the state training
school, and that s%tepfathers and step.
mothers are included in his list of
causes of bringing children to that in
stitution. He shows that from June
81, 1913, to July /, 1914, forty-fve
had been paroled from the peniten.
tiary, of which three were returned
to that institution, and two had broken
parole and are yet at large. For the
training school, twenty had been pa
rolled, two had been returned to that
institution, and one had broken parole
and had not been located.
Farm Labor Problem.
Pierre.-Immigration Commissioner
McCaffree has Just returned from q
trip to Kansas City, where, at a meet
ing of immigration and labor officials
of western states, an organization was
formed, to be known as the National
Farm Labor Exchange, and Mr.. Nc
Caffree was selected as president OF
the organization. In speaking of the
aims and desires of this organization
McCaffree said that the general
purpose was to prevent such o
ment Of farm labor as that of last
year when men were SEM into South
harvest, and into states farther south
after the harvest work was done. The
details Of the handling Of men have
not been arranged, and this work is
expected to be planned in detail, SO
as to ARE for the best interests Of the
laborers and of the farmers. at a meet.
ing which has been called at Omaha
for February /, where labor and i'm
migration officers of the different
western states and representatives OF
various civic ard business .organiza-
lions, and other interested parties in
the states from Texas to the north
ern boundary line, are expected to
gather and formulate some definite
method Of meeting the problem. Be
sides the local state organizations, the
exchange expects to work through cen.
trally located points, like Kansas City,
where the Missouri Free Labor Blu
reau will handle the work. and at
Sioux City, where some arrangement
will be perfected to keep the stream
Of labor moving.
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