The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-12-08
WARDEN DYCHE STARTS PRISON
 NIGHT SCHOOL
Parliamentary c o urs e s Taught to Inmates of Fed eral Penitentiary At At lanta By Convict Instruc- tors.

Atlanta, Ga, Dec. s.-Eucation as potent agency for the uplift of hu man standards, and uhe abolition of many minor mfsdemeanors which :, gressfons of law is again proven in the administration of J. p. Dyche, 4 warden of the Atlanta Federal Peni- &entiary, according to prison officials closely connected with the admins tration.
 MT. Dyche came to the Federal Prison here last June to take up the liexecutkve office, and interesting re- suits may be observed from the in- stallatfon of night school in the prison for the benefit of inmates who Elementary schooling on the outside. When MT. Dyche came to the pen Yztentiary here it was a common thing for the isolation ward of the prison and even serious offenses, prison off 'cfals state.
 The warden conceived the idea of "a night school to give the men ad- tvartages which they might have been tdeprived of in their former life. and two weeks after the night school be- Etaere was a marked decrease in the number of commitments to the isola- ltion building.
 In recent weeks only four at one time are recorded to have been in sthat portion of the penitentiary. and teach of these eases was for trivial loffenses. It is said that there are hardly ever more than two at a time !an the building since the school was Sstarted-
 Prison Instructors.
 The courses taught are rudtment- tary, and although an effort has been made to secure instructors from out sside the prison 50 far 1t has not been sDossib1e. Instructors are, therefore. obtained from among the inmaIes Of :ahe Institution who are qualified to act
 Henry W. TomIinson, superintend sent of construction at the new Illinois sGtate Penitentiary. a recent visitor at Lthe Atlanto prison, expressed amaze ;salent when told of the results accom- piiehed by the night school system both in building morale and lessening %folatton of prison rules.
 sT have been closely connected w1ah prisons of many kinds,' he said, and tpyche has sponsored since coming is1ere is one of the most humane eff forts have ever observed toward
 eiping@ @ the fellow gh9 fa4a is aoWn Eat Joliet, we deal, believe. with the isnost desperate criminals, and 1t fstrikes me that if some such method lwere inaugurated there, whereby !these men could have the advantage ! Of securing good, sound educational Knowledge, we would have better Jess of the frequent uprisings which .slave manifested themselves in time past"
 Visits Hospital Ward.
 Warden Dyche, differing vastly from the old-scllool 1ype of prison warden, has made friend of every convict of the institution. Twice and ssometirnes three times a week he wis its the hospital ward, speaks to each man confined there personally, 1n- quires as to their welfare and is never hacking in words of comfort to those !Yho are afflicted with Sufferings.
 Dyche has made it an iron-clad rule 10 speak to every prisoner he meets lon the grounds or in the cell houses, Curtly, but cordially. He never asks even the slightest favor of prisoner but what he returns a cheery "thank Sou.''
 This policy might not be in ac- ,ordance with the old conventionalIties of prison management" MT. Dyche i1cld the International News Service. If'but I find thai I am getting results. rThe records will show that you can sdo a lot with warm, human kind :aless.''