The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-28
HOW PRISONS ARE RUN IN
THE i. S. A.

poor through the medium of well-advertised
and worthless nostrums.
Why do millionares so charitably give up
their spare time to so-called welfare work
for state wards? The answer is simple: Be-
cause this voluntary duty exempts them from
the paying of all state taxes, which, in the
case of a millionaire, would be considerable.
A man does from three years up in this
place and finds that his health is shattered
from bad, greasy food lacking in vitamins, bad
sanitation and filthy drinking water Is it
remarkable that he will come back to do more
time?
Our sanctimonious parole officer will see
that the "dicks" "wise up" any prospective
employer of an ex-convict. As a rule, the ex-
convict is broken in health and can not hold
up his end-he commits another crime and
comes back.
If your mother comes from across the con-
tinent she will get Is minutes to visit with
you with wide table thrust between you and
porcine copper watching her like cat watch
es a bird. The officials say they have to be
strict about visitors on accounts of the pos
sible smuggling of narcotics-very little of
that stuff ever came in that way; the bulk
comes in through our mail censor and some of
the screws"
The visitor is treated like convict too,
but most visitors are poor and the poor should
not expect too much in this world they are
going to nave fine palaces in heaven some
day according to the romish and protestant
pulpiteers.
The flu epidemic hit here Dec %, 1928. By
Feb. 1, 1929, twenty-six lhen had died. Every
pneumonia was lost because they were
thrown into sitting, cramped rooms and not
window went up. Delirious patients wan
dered all over the hospital and the correspond
ence-school medco we had at that time got
more notches on his gun than Billy the Kid
All the officials of this place are high Ma
sons and most of the screws are Masons and
Knights of Columbus. The officials here had
the coroner (another 100 per center) come
down and whtewash them in the matter of
wholesale deaths-this was necessary, too, be-
cause some of the highest "stirs" in this
country did not individually lose five inmates
during the epidemic.
Anyone that cover up twenty-six need
less deaths can just about get away with any,
thing. Of course, the coroner got favorable
reports on conditions in the hospital from in
mate nurses. but, you should know that these
worthless are recruited from rape cases, sodomy
cases, arson cases and professional stoolpig-
cons. They'll swear to anything at any time
for anybody for price; if every man has
his price, they've got two, the second lower
than the first.
Every Wednesday evening "Holy Joe" leads
his bible class into the chapel to be RECALLED
with stories of incest, jehovan cantankerous-
ness, brutal and wanton murder, depravity
and Munchausan legends. Every raper and
every sodomite here is in the bible class Two
years ago there were seven men here for
raping their own offspring; every one of them
belonged to "Holy Joe's" noble band of christ
ian soldiers.
The drinking water is dirty, rusty and foul
because these grafters well water from
seven wells that are really cesspools If you
go to the bathroom to take warm shower oil
comes through the hot water line from the
pumps il the pump house, and you come out
from the shower with hair and skin spotted
with tenacious black spots. They are always
building something here to show to visitors
but they never fix the things that visitors
cannot see.
Four plus syphilis cases work in the kitchen;
for five dollars they used to be able to bride
the convict nurse who gave the "shots" to
take them off the active list. They keep all
the tuberculars here in this damp, unhealthy
place instead of sending them to the Honor
Farm in the mountains. The reason is that
they can make more graft on these cases here
for there is a special state appropriation set
aside to give these tuberculars a special diet;
needless to say, the TBS do not get what
the taxpayers are paying for them to get.
This is about all for this time, and I'll leave
it to your imagination what conditions must
be like in other institutions that are not as
progressive" as this one.
EDGAR A. HAINSEY, No. 1888.