Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-05-25

DR.. Wrights recommendations will un-
doubtedly cause general arrangement
Of the systems existing in the Marion
county Jail and other county institutions.
If the county commissioners will carry
them out
DIR. WrightS major recommendations
are:
THAT the suspected and adjudged In
sane under no circumstances should be
sent to or held in the county jail: that
they be sent to psychopathic service
for diagnosis and treatment and If and
when necessary thereafter committed to
a state hospital for the insane
URGES BUDGET
SYSTEM FOR JAIL.
THAT the present county Jail build
ing be continued as a Jail after certain
alterations and repairs, hereafter listed
are made: that the jail be operated on a
budget rather than on the present fee
system.
That the workhouse he held as coun-
! ty property and leased on a short term
basis.
That the county cease to operate an
| institution for the care and custody of
the Insane; that the patients now in
Julietta be transferred to a state hospital
for the insane
That the buildings on the poor farm
are, with minor repairs suitable for the
temporary use and are nearly adequate
in bed capacity for present needs.
That the Marion county juvenile court
detention home has outgrown its pres.
ent building and enlarged quarters are
needed with space for services not now
provided
POINTS OFT NEEDS
AT SUNNYSIDE.
THAT the Sunnyside tuberculosis hos
pital be provided with more beds for
incipient cases; that a policy be adopted
to the following end:
A. Provision be made for the care
of cases which can not be cared
for at home.
b. The hospital be considered
training school for tubercular cases
wherein they shall be taught how to
conduct and cure for themselves in
their homes.
c. That field nurses be employed
/ to visit cases having returned to
their homes.
D. That periodic clinics be held
IN various sections of the county TO
! discover and instruct those predis.
/ posed or having been exposed to
/ tuberculosis.
That, if the capacity Of Whites In
stitute, Wabash. Ind. is not ADEQUATE.
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the county, to which may be sent those
children who will not attend public
school and those who are delinquent
yet not sufficiently so to warrant send
Ing them to the Indiana Boys or Girls
/ school under long-term sentence
That there be created a board as agent
of the board Of county commissioners to
administer all of the institutional and
social work now under the Jurisdiction
OF the commissioners and the township
trustees"
In lengthy survey on the county
Jail DR.. Wright said it should be oper-
ated upon a budgetary basis like that
used in all other institutions.
The sheriff should make his estimate
of the cost of feeding prisoners and
operating the jail. and the board of com
missioners should make an appropriation
based, on such an estimate" the report
continued.
LESS CHANCE FOR
SCANDAL. HE SAYS.
With the bpdgetary system adopted,
there will be much less basis for sus-
picion. accusation or possible scandal
Moreover, 1t undoubtedly would be
more satisfactory to the sheriff and TO
the public to abolish the entire fee sys-
tenn as applied to the sherif's Office,
and place the sheriff on a salary COM
peQsation, with stipulated salaries for
all of his employees
DR.. Wright recommended that the
abandoned power house, next to the jail
property, be provided for the women
inmates Of the Jail, and that the present
cell space in the jail be given up to the
men.
1t was suggested that one-h half of cell
block in the south wing, lower floor,
be used for sick prisoners and that a
bath service be provided in the base
ment.
DR.. Wright recommended that all toi-
let's and lavatories be replaced; that
locking devices for cell doors be re-
paired or replaced; that a new kitchen
be equipped in the basement of the jail;
that the brick wall separating the CEN
trail portion and the south wing, be torn
down and replaced with bars and wire
screen and that a high wall be built
around the rear yard to form an en-
closure wherein prisoners might be exer-
cised.
WORKHOUSE HELD
To BE IMPRACTICAL.
In considering the Jail, DR.. Wright
gave a careful report on conditions at
the abandoned workhouse which Judge
James A. Collins of the criminal court
recently suggested be transformed into
a county Jail,
He gives a number of reasons why the
plan to discard the present Jail and
transfer the prisoners to the workhouse,
is unwise.
DR.. Wright held that the cells at the
workhouse are small and unventilated
and that conditions exist there that would
render it easy for prisoners to escape
and would render inadequate protection
in case of a public demonstration such
as in the Ray case, the report stated.
He held that the present jail is ade
quate in size and type of exterior and
interior construction and is located in
the heart of the city and can be easily
guarded, and also stated that it would
cost more to operate the workhouse as
a Jail than the present cost Of operating
the present Jail.
ATTACKS SYSTEM OF
CARING FOR INSANE.
In considering Julietta. DR.. Wright
held that the insane are best taken
care of in states where they are con-
fined to state hospitals for the insane
instead of county institutions.
DIR, Wright beld that 1t is reported
that some of the insane here are held
in almshouses
Rarely are the insane well cared for
in almshouses, and any system which
permits them to remain in or enter an
almshouse is defective" DR.. Wright held.
"Julietta is not so well operated as the
State Hospital for the Insane in Indiana
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