The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-03-12
CLEAN UP PRISON
FARM IS REQUEST
PAROLE WORTHLESS. PRISON.
ERS SAYS GEORGIA HOUSE
AND SENATE COMMIT
TEE IN REPORT

The john House and Senate pcni-
Tertiary committee of the Georgia
Legislature, in report filed with
Governor Dorsey and the prison COM
mission today recommends clean
up of the State prison farm which will
get rid of a number of worthless"
prisoners by parole.
significant feature of the report
is the fact that among the list re-
commended fer parole is Mrs. Emma
Perkins G0dbee, serving a life SEN
tence, and who has been at the farm
four years. Her application for elem
ency has been before the prison com
mission half dozen times. was fin
ally passed down to Governor Harris
with favorable recommendation and
went over from the Harris admins
tration as unfinished business and
is now pending before Governor Dor
, sey.
vi lHc JOIIlI
legislative committee, which is an un-
! usual document, is signed by j. b.
Mills, the chairman pro TEN, and on
| the committee which examined the
| State farm and it's inmates was Dr.
B. F. Bond, now an army surgeon and
/ sanitarian. but member of the House
of Representatives from Franklin coun
vt. The investigation of the state
farm, however, was made by the whole
committee.
Dorsey Doesn't See Report
! The report came to Governor Dor
sey's office shortly after noon, few
minutes after he had left the office
to go to Washington, and was not
seen by him. 1t will be laid before him
ehe latter part of the week. The copy
| filed with the State prison sommis-
sion will be brought to the attention
of that board tomorrow. A third copy
/ has been filed with preventative Dor
ris, chairman of the house peniten-
tiary committee, and Senator H. II.
| Merry. chairman of same committee
of the upper branch This will be pre-
sented to the Legislature at it's next
session, with such general recom+
mendatiCnS and reports as may be
made up covering all the camps in
the state as well as the state farm.
The joint committees report and
recommendations on the State farm
is as follows:
1--WE the joint committee from the
House and Senate, make the following
recommendations to the prison com
missioners and to the governor of
the State of Georgia:
Paroles Are Requested.
1--WE request that the following
named convictS of the State peniten-
tiary in Milledgeville be paroled, as
follows: Lott from Coffee county, who
is So years old with ample means to
care forhimself, totally no good to the
State; Dru Smith, of Epson county,
who has served Is years, is 50 years
. old, aud worn out; Pleas Williams,
of Taylor county, who has pellagra in
advanced stages; Bob Lawson. of
Richmond county, who is hopelessly
paralyzed; Sam Belcher, of Lowndes
county totally bl.2d; j. B. Watts of
Pulaski county, served seven years,
has tuberculosis, no good to the state;
+. NJ. Allen, of Cowetta county. has
served Il years has tuberculosis. and
is g. years old; Mack Porter, of Mi
tchell county, 65 years old has been
in his bed for the last seven years;
vii Ford of Chatham county has
served eleven years, has tuberculosis,
is a hopeless case; Asa Blackmond,
of Lincoln county, has served
seven years, and is totally blind
viii Mcmillan, from Wilcox county.
has served 20 years and is hopelessly
paralyzed; Tom Haywood. of Ware
county, has served 16 years and has