Evening star., 1921-11-17
CR0WDE1Q0CKETS
|MEP MANY IN JAIL
Condition in D. C.. Supreme
! Court Deplored by Board ,
of Charities.

!, The congested condition of the
hbckets of the District Supreme Court,
which makes it necessary for
pfisoners. to remain at the District
Jail for long periods of time awaiting
trial. is deplored by the Board of
Chs8ities, in its annual report sub
Hitted 10 the Commissioners today.
/ ! Although the average population OF
the jail dropped during the last nscal
MAJ, from 297 to 243. the board tells
the Commissioners there are sun
lAdSe prisoners than cells at the IN
sti4ution. This means the placing of
two prisoners in some cells. which the
HOSrdS regards as most unrortu-
Many Out on Bail.
l'Ehe fact that there was less num-
He$of. prisoners in the Jail last year
hah sduring the preceding year.
4ates the report. does not necessarily
awaiting trial, because there are
hany persons awaiting trial who are
1T liberty on bail. Indeed, great
many persons held for trial as boot
1egEerS or bookmakerS are at liberty
dn bail.
;The Criminal Court docket is so far
ke4+ind that ii must necessarily be a
loug time before all of the cases are
tried The court has made notable
effort to try first those in Jall Win
out bond; but. Notwithstanding thlS
fact, there are still many long waits
in jail before trial, a condition which.
in the Judgment Of this board, ought
not to exist"
The board renews its previous
Recommendation for law providing
ftr indeterminate sentence ana pa
{Dnrinp tha lat fiscal wear the daily
Average number of prisoners at the
dccoquan workhouse dropped from
3S4 to 2OS. This is the lowest hgure
Oh record since establishment of the
institrtian eleven years ag0., ..
j'.Some of the original buildings at
tn workhouse must soon be re-
rssWed," the board tells the Com
n4iHsioners.
4hese building have been in use
IEE for more than ten years. They
TIE place. and were designed Tor tenn
IaSary use. 4 systematic rebuilding
oE@the institution with more perma-
nEm structures must soon be begun.
4<he board tells the Commissioners
tHM it hopes to open on July next the
GaHinger Hospital. for which the Dis
tr5Nt has been waiting for twenty years.
would Accept Pay Patients.
Ihe board recommends that legisla-
tS6a be enacted authorizing it to ac-
cST pay patients in these wards. This
instrumentation is made. the board
ss, because there is no other hospital
inthe city with facilities for the class
o&patients to be received into the
pEEthopathic wards.
Urgent need for erection 6f a nurses
mne at the tuberculosis Hospital Is
wHnted out in the report. The board
s#p asks authority to admit to that
hospital persons who may be able them
sH1es or through friends to pay some
psi of the cost Of the treatment. At
regent only INDECENT patients may be
aaHitted
The board recommends that the pres
emf Industrial Home School for white
Children be sold and the proceeds used
tS purchase land more remote from
the city for the erection of q new
sthool, where agricultural and out
DIOR training could be given. The
hard is of the belief that the pro-
DEEDS from the sale of the existing
p3ant would be sufficient to purchase
Suburban ground and erect a modern
Institution.
fThe board again calls attention to
tie urgent need for home for feeble
n4nded, for which legislation has been
I&nding in Congress for several years.
ALTHOUGH there was slight in
dfease in the number of persons COM
r&itted to the insane asylum during
the last fiscal year, the board says
tbs was to be expected as the popu-
l3tion Of the city increased.