The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-02-15
Appropriations Bill for Penal
Institutions Before Senate.
Favor Larger Amounts for Next
Years Work.
ALL COMBINED IN ONE BILL
Additional $1,000 Per Year to
Beloit School.
Propose Disciplinary Cottage
for Unruly Girls.

The appropriation bills for the state
penal institutions have been practical
ly completed in the conference room
Of the senate committee on ways and
means, and will be presented in the
senate in the course Of the next day. or
two.
The committee has followed the
policy Of installing business methods
in the state institutions. and their ap-
preparations and recommendations
have been to that effect turnout
The appropriations are for the most
part larger than they were at the last
biennium- A feature of the budgets
has been appropriations however,
which will render available facilities.
OF one sort and another. which will
pay for themselves in a short time.
Combined Into One Bill.
The appropriations for all the fnsti-
tutions are to be combined in one bill
contrary TO the usual custom of the
committee. This will simplify matters
considerably, the chairman of the
committee states.
Because of the growth of the State
Girls Industrial school at Beloit. there
has been made an appropriation of
$4,000 year for the next two years,
for additional help The general main
tenance fund, s4S, 900 a year. remains
the same A fund of $50 year for
the next two years has been appropri-
ated for the general improvement of
the buildings, which are in bad repair
at the present time. The school is
now using an ice box for the storage
OF food. and one of the items is an ap-
preparation of $4,000 for the con-
struction of a cold storage plant.
A Disciplinary Cottage.
a disciplinary cottage, for the girls
VINO are unruIy. hard to handle, and
should not be confined with the other
girls, and which will cost $4,000. is
provided for in the appropriation bill.
The cottage has been badly needed fog
years, Chairman Snyder. of the COM
mittee, says.
There is contemplated the instaIIa-
ton of 4 system whereby the inmates
| of the girls Industrial school will
make all the clothes for the women in
mates of all the state institutions at
\ Beloit. and thereby find occupation
| and also save the state money. One
of the crying needs at all the institu-
tons, the committee found, according
i to it's chairman, was the efficient ap-
plication of the human labor-power
which is being wasted there.
$1,000 Foz Hutchinson School.
| At the Boys Reformatory at. Hutch
inson an appropriation of $4,000 a year
/ for additional help has been made with
a total Of $4,000 a year for salaries
and wages Maintenance and re-
pairs will cost $1o5,0o0 a year. an in
crease of $4,000 a year over the
last appropriation Special repairs
and requirements, badly needed. will
cost s17,500. Ten thousand dollars
was appropriated for the completion
of a cell house. which was TO have
been completed years ago The cell
house is valued at at least 100000,
and is useless now. when the housing
conditions are crowded to the limit,
because funds which were once ap-
| propriated for its completion were
used for some other purpose the
$4,000 will make it Immediately
available
To Build New Power Plant.
A $4,000 power plant is contem-
Mated, and SIS, 900 Is set aside for
vocational training. with the install
nent of a shoe factory which will sup
pIy all the inmates of all the instttu-
tons, in prospect
At the state penitentiary, $4,000 a
wear has been allowed for securing ad-
ditionaI guards. to take the places OF
prisoners who are now serving as
guards practice Of which the COM
rnittee strongly disapproves, according
to Senator Snyder Salaries and wages
will amount to a total OF 100000 a
year
An additional sum for maintenance
and repair of $4,000 year has been
granted, bringing the total to 100000
a year for the institution.
For the next two years, $4,000 a
year has been set aside for the COM
pletion of the new cell houses which
appropriation of s125.0o0 for the con-
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