The Alaska daily empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1912-1926, 1922-04-26
CRITICISM MADE
OF DRY AGENCY
BY GRAND JURY
Adjustment of Federal Pro-
hibition Bureau Suggest
ed in Final Report.

Containing criticism of certain al
legged methods used by the Federal
Prohibition Bureau, and the person
mel attahced to the Bureau, the Fed
eral Grand Jury in it's final report
made to Judge T. NJ. Reed in the U.
IS. District Court this morning, sug-
gested that the Bureau be abolished.
1t also recommended the consolida-
ton of Federal law-enforcing agencies
in the Territory under the Depart
ment of Justice.
The Grand Jlry was discharged
from further service by Judge Reed,
who expressed the appreciation OF
the court for the thorough manner in
which it had conducted its work and
the expedition with which it worked
1t was in session nine days.
Report In Full
I'VE, the Grand Jury summoned to
attend the special March, 1922, term
CO the District Court for the Disc let
o. Alaska, Division No. 1, having
completed our labors for the said
FERN and concluded tine busnej5
t'ou3:li before MS, row leg leave =
-et,oTt to this Honorable Court as
follows:
1--WE have been in session nine
days; we have acted upon 10 bind
over cases; have conducted a num-
Der of ether Investigations; have
found IL true bills and four not
true bills and have examined 81
witnesses.
1--WE have carefully examined the
United States Court House at Jul
neau, the offices of the United States
Attorney, United States Marshal,
Clerk of the Court and Commission
er. We commend the manner in
which all of these offices are con
Quoted, l5tit venture to make some
suggestions which we believe are
necessary for the Improvement of the
building ard for equipment in the re-
sipective offices, which in our opin-
ion would be very conducive to bet
ter conduct of the public business.
Court House Building
I'VE have considered the recon
mendai.tons made by the last Grand
Jury at Juneau and endorse every
thing said by that Grand Jury re-
gardIing the Jail. We particularly de-
sire to cali attention to some add
tional matters, however:
81. We find the electric wiring
in the Jail building to be exposed so
That it lis possible for prisoners at
any time to sihort-circuit the lighting
system and put the whole building in
da~knecs. This we consider most un-
,1efe from the point of guarding the
PRISONERS as well as a great menace
from fire, and recommend that all
exposed wires in the Jail be en-
closed in steel conduits.
a. The need of a padded cell still
continues ard in our opinion, some
provision for a padded cell in which
10 keep insane prisoners should be
made Immediately.
"3. We recommend that a steel
grille be constructed in the jail build
'Ng connecting the corridors sur
otIndipg the two large tanks, so that
one guard may be able to guard both
tanks at once. This would reduce
the number of guards on each shift
BY one man and not only be con-
ducive to economy but would provb,s
for better guarding of the prisoners
"A. The Court House building
should all be painted in the immedi-
ate future particularly the outside.
50 We find the driveway APP
preaching the Court House to be very
dangerous for automobiles and other
vehicles, for the reason that there Ia
iC0ntinued on rage TWo.5