Evening star., 1950-09-17
21,O62 jailed
Here in Year
For New. Record
Clemmer Report Cites
Shorp Rise in Four
Penal Institutions

The courts sent 21,O62 persons
TO District Jail during the 1850
fiscal year. the largest number
ever admitted, according to the
annual report of Donald Glenn
mer, director of corrections.
Mr.. Clemmer pointed out to the
Commissioners that the previous
record of 20,851 admissions was
set in 1884.
The department recorded g
sharp rise in the inmate popula-
tion in all four penal institutions.
The 1949 average was 2,738 in
mates, while the daily average
for the year ended June 80 was
3,244.
Most pronounced increase was
at the workhouse, at Occoquan,
Va, where the average daily
population jumped from 679 in
1949 to 952 in 1850.
No Serious Disturbances.
Despite this high population of
the institutions, however, Mr..
Clemmer reported, the year
passed without serious conduct
disturbances or difficulties in the
management of inmates. -
He said that SO per cent of
the inmates obeyed the rules and
worked productivity and engaged
in the balanced program that is
provided for them"
The department stresses train
ing of inmates wherever possible,
promotes a balanced recreation
program of sports, movies. COM
petitive indoor games, radio and
television, and holds % religious
services a week in addition to
pastor conferences by chaplains
with inmates, the report noted.
The report contained recon-
mendations for provision of more
professional employees to devote
full time to various rehabilitation
programs, and a thorough" re-
study of the alcoholic problem by
all District law-enforcement agen.
cies and representative citizens.
"The department calls atten-
ton again to the almost utter
futility now employed in the han
ding Of conventional alcoholics, "
the report said in calling for a
study of ways to improve handling
"of this complicated community
problem"
The Washington Chapter of AL
coholics Anonymous is given a
free hand and full support" in
trying to help alcoholics, and the
department sponsors its own al
coholic consultation service to aid
volunteer inmate-patients.
The departments industrial di-
vision had the largest year in its
history from a productive and
sales standpoint, MFR. Clemmer re-
ported. Production totaled $685.
279, with sales of $714,770, and
there were uncompleted orders
amounting to $104,690 at the end
of the year.,
$58,435 Returned to City.
Besides maintaining itself in
terms of buying equipment and
raw materials and paying salaries
to its own employees and all in
mates, the division had $58,437
available for return to the Dis
trict, the report said.
Production of the agricultural
division totaled $196.954. Nearly
1000 acres were farmed. and dur
ing the year the division cleared
and fertilized about Is acres of
land from brush and scrub timber,
and uprooted five acres of old
apple trees no longer productive.
The division produced about
one-third of the total weight of
food consumed, as well as one
third Of the cost. Mr.. Clemmer
said, and the department plans to
increase the agricultural contri-
button.
The renovation program at the
jail was completed, and that in
stitution may now be said to be
secure in it's structural aspects"
the Commissioners were informed.
A 20-bed hospital was completed
at the women's reformatory.