The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1916-05-04

board:
Visited March %, 1915, by A. D.
Oliphant with Mrs. Edgar Dickinson.
Located about one block from court
house and business section, in rear
of former. Capacity, 8 prisoners;
average population, 4; maximum re-
corded population, 13.
I. Administration.
The jail and it's management are
directly in charge of Mrs. Edgar
Dickinson, the wife of the jailer ap-
pointed by Sheriff S. G. Ray. DR..
Robert Black, the county physician,
receives a salary of SITS year for
doing the practice at the jail and at
the chaingangs. He is appointed by
the supervisor and the board of COM
missioners. The county physician
visits the Jail when called. He does
not make a medical examination of
all prisoners committed nor does he
vaccinate them against smallpox and
typhoid. The sick prisoners stay in
their cells. Carbolic acid solution is
used to scour the -four of cell which
a sick prisoner has occupied.
The grand jury inspected the Jail
in January, 1916.
III. The Jail.
The Jail is a two-story brick build
ing erected in 1897. The jailer, his
wife and family of four occupy five
rooms on the first floor of the Jail.
Their quarters are lighted by kero-
sene lamps and heated by CRATES.
The jail kitchen and it's equipment
were clean on the day of the visit.
It's windows and doors, however, we're
not screened
The prisoners quarters occupy the
whole of the second floor of the jail.
The floor is subdivided into five
rooms, all of which are about Is by
Is by 10. The floors, ceilings and
walls of the rooms are of wood. Each
of the rooms has a wooden door and
a grated iron door opening into the
hall which divides the rooms. Each
of the rooms is ventilated by two
large windows barred with rods. The
rooms are heated by stove in the
hallway. The rooms occupied by the
prisoners are secured every two
weeks, carbolic acid solution being
used for this purpose. The walls of
the rooms are whitewashed or calci-
mined twice year.
One of the rooms is reserved ex-
clusively for white men. Three OF
them are kept for negro men or ne
gro women and one for insane pris-
oners.
The room for white male prisoners
has a double iron bed in it. The
bedding consisted of two quilts and
two mattresses. The three rooms for
negro males and females contained
double-deck single iron beds on
which quilts were being used as bed
pads and blankets for covering. The
room for insane prisoners was bare
except for two blankets and a bucket.
All the rooms contained enamel-ware
toilet buckets.
The second floor of the jail is un-
lighted by night.
In the three rooms reserved Tor
negroes there are ring bolts in the
middle of the floor to which chains
are attached. These chains are lock-
ed around the ankles of prisoners
whom it is feared will try to escape.
The chains are about 7 feet long.
Only two of the ring bolts had chains
attached to them on the day of the
visit.
III. The Prisoners.
Prisoners are not required to bathe
and annoint themselves with verminl-
eide when they are committed to jail.
| Relatives or friends of prisoners
usually bring them clean clothing,
but the county buys clothing for prls-
oners who cannot get it from another
source.
The prisoners food is prepared by
a cook hired by the jailer. On the
day of the visit the prisoners bill OF
fare was given as follows:
Breakfast: Hominy, bacon, gravy
waf1es, light bread.
Dinner: Peas, boiled bacon, rice
biscuit
Supper: Syrup and bread.
The prisoners are given coffee te
drink in the morning in winter.
The dieting fee in Bamberg county
is 80 cents a day prisoner.
The prisoners are required tt
bathe once a week. Fresh water i
provided for each of them. The