The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1916-12-21
REPORT Of
COUNTY VISITORS
PROCEEDINGS AND RECOAINTEN.
DATIONs CONCERNING. CHAR.
TABLE INSTITUTIONS

Greenvills, Ohio, Nov. 81, 1916.
Hon. E. T. Bo1i,
Judge of Probate Court,
Gresnville, Ohio.
Dear Sir:
We, the Board of County visi
tors, do hereby make a full repor
of our proceedings and of our rec
concentrations concerning the char
liable and correctional institution
of the County for the year endini
December Is, 1916: Since Decem
Der Is, 1915, the Board has hel,
nine meetings. Seven of thes
meetings were called for the pur
pose of visiting the institutions
one was called to. appoint delegates
to the State Conference at Youngs
town and one was called to heal
the report of the delegates to the
Conference and to discuss the con,
tents of the yearly report. We have
visited the City Prison, County
Jail, Infirmary and Children's
Home once each quarter. The mu-
nicipal prisons were visited by COM
mittees appointed by the President
City Prison
This prison, located in the City
Hall, is as we'll kept as is possible
under existing circumstances. If
the City Hall were remodelled, the
prison would be changed so that
the ventilation and sanitation
would be improved.
County Jail
Our Jail is constructed of brick
and is considered safe. 1t will ac-
comodate twenty-four prisoners. 1t
is lighted with electricity and
heated with steam. Water is OBJ
tanned from the city plant. The
beds are cell cots of iron, and
these are equipped with mattresses
blankets, and pillows. The Jail is
ventilated by gfnlows high in the
wall. Prisoners are given plenty
Of wholesome food. Both prison
ers and officers are governed BY
rules. The prisoners are reqired
to keep the interior of the Jail
clean. Daily and weekly news
papers, magazines donated by
friends, furnish reading material
for prisoners. The sexes are sepa-
rated.
We especially commend Sheriff
Casell for the much needed i'm
he has made in the wo-
mans department, rendering it
habitable for women prisoners. A
Ill times during his term Of Office
we have found the Jail in good con
lition.
Municipal Prisons
The Municipal Prisons were visit
ed by committees appointed by the
President. We are pleased to re-
port that the condition in these
prisons is constantly improving.
The conditions of the prisons at
Arcanum, Hollansburg, Palestine,
Union City, New Weston, Osgood
Yorkshire, Bradford and Ansonia
was good.
The prison itself at New Madison
was clean, bat the surroundings
were bad. The Board recommends
that New Madison secure a better
building in which to locate their
cells a place that would harmon
ize with their otherwise progress
sive town.
The Board finds that as in the
past, there is a public toilet in
connection with the Versailles pris-
on. Some arrangement should be
made by which the public toilet
may be entirely separated from the
prison.
The prison at Rossburg is clean
and sanitary, but arrangements
should be mdae by which they can
care for more than one prisoner
and the cells should be of iron in
stead of wood.
We again recommend that the
rooms in which the prisoners are
located should be kept clean, and
free from rubbish of all kinds.
In1irmary
The Infirmary located two and
one-half miles south of Greenville
is on the Dayton and Northern
Traction line. The farm valued al
$125 per acre, contains two hun
dred and forty-one acres. OF thiI
farm fifteen acres is timber, fivt
acres garden, ten acres orchard
five acres lawn and barn yard
twenty-five acres timber, and the
remainder is tillable.
There are two brick building
in which the superintendent fam
lily and the inmates are housed
Both of these buildings are in e1
cellent condition. They are heat
ed with steam and lighted wit
The water supply is from a sprin
and a driven well. Fire exiting
uishers and water supplied by tn