Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-07

MAYHEM the prisoner Is brought to Levisours
w he will be housed In Q receiving building
This building will contain quarantine ceHs in
which the newcomer will be placed for a period
Of two weeks or more or until such time as his
observation and examination viii have been
completed.
1t is in this building that the most important
and far-reaching work under the new system
will be conducted. The Federal authorities
believe that the least they can do toward seeing
that the prisoner is discharged In better con-
dition than when he was received IS to remove
his physical handicaps and upbuild his physique
so that he can earn an honest living II he
wishes They also want to have facilities which
will enable them to answer conclusively state
ments frequently made that all criminals are
mental detectives.
In the receiving building the most modern
facilities for the diagnosis of mental and physi-
cal ailments will be provided, and the prisoner
will be studied, analysed and classified accord
ing to his record, his criminal tendencies, the
character of his mind and his physical
condition.
Here he will receive complete medical ex-
animation and If he Is found to have some
defect which can be corrected by medical
surgical attention he will be moved to the
hospital.
This hospital of 90 beds, also . part Of the
receiving building. will be one Of the out
standing features Of the new penitentiary.
Maintained and operated by the United States
Public Health Service recently placed in charge
Of Federal Penal Medical Service, it will be
complete unit in itself comprising every facility
of . modern city hospital and including
operating rooms for major and minor opera
tionS, clinical laboratories, complete X-ray
department . dental department and the
latest equipment for hydro and electro therapy.
Realizing that II the prison IS to perform
its full duty toward its inmates, adequate medi-
cal service must be provided to remove the
physical and mental handicaps which so often
induce crime" states Prison Director Bates,
1.-The department approached the United States
Public Health Service with . view to securing
its cooperation. After the necessary legislation
had been obtained an arrangement was made
with the Public Health Service for the entire
supervision and conduct Of the medical and
psychiatric work in the prisons by that splen-
didly organized and equipped service. It is
confidently expected that the Federal institu-
lions under this arrangement viii be able to
make q demonstration Of the important and
constructive role which the medical service
must play in the rehabilitation Of the
criminal"
II the prisoner at Lewisburg is found to be
Chronic defective" he will be removed to the
new Federal hospital for defective delinquents
now under construction at Springfield, Mo, as
part Of the new prison program.
The prisoner who is pronounced mentally
and physically normal will be removed from the
quarantine cells and placed in one OF the
stronger types Of housing until he demonstrates
that he can be trusted in the barracks or
dormtories.
II he is found to be of the bad man" or
tough" type, hardened or habitual offender
likely to cause trouble for himself and his
fellow inmates and in need of disciplining, he
will be placed in the disciplinary building"
three-story structure containing the only inside
cell rooms in the institution. These rooms. 66
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