Evening star., 1950-09-21

Federal institutions.
i The Attorney General has |
II authority to designate any |
District or Federal institution |
!. as the place of confinement |
| for persons convicted here.
S4,532,OOO Is Asked
For Fiscal 81 TO Run
Penal Institutions
A budget of $4,532,ooO is re-
quested by the District Depart
ment of Corrections for the fiscal
year 1852, in anticipation of an
average daily population of $3.50
inmates at the four penal insti-
tutions.
This is 81, ,Oe2 500 more than the
appropriation for the present
fiscal year. based on an expected
average population of 1900.
The 1852 estimates made public
today pointed out. however, that
the average for the year ended
last June 80 was 3,244, and that,
during the early part of July, the
population exceeded 5000.
OF the total 1852 budget re-
quest, $423,000 would be spent
for construction of new facilities
including a dormitory at the work.
house, a dairy barn and milk
house and a canning factory.
FL New Positions Asked.
The department asks 81 new
positions, to cost $73,500. These
include a psychiatrist, two group
therapists, a recreation officer
and two custodial officers for the
institutions on the 3,200-acre res
ervation near Occoquan and Lor-
ton, Va, and a nurse and custodial
officer for the District Jail.
Group therapy, it was pointed
out, "as newly developed tech
nique to modify the attitudes OF
human beings. is beginning to
promise much in the long-sought
solution to maladjusted persons
with criminal traits" Experiment
tation in some State and Federal
prisons has indicated the tech
nique has real possibilities of help
ing conventional offenders who
populate the prisons of the coun-
try" it was added.
Completion of the reformatory
operational control center at a
cost of $4,000 during fiscal 1852.
would provide dormitory space
for about 22o more beds by re-
leasing space now used for con-
troll functions, the Commissioners
were informed. This might level
off the number of prisoners sent
to Federal prisons, it was pointed
out.
The proposed dairy barn and
milk house, to cost $4,000, would
be a start on structures to &C
commodate 148 milking cows and
IA head of beef cattle.
Cost Put at S15O,O0O.
The whole construction project
would cost $150,000 and woulC
enable the department to provide
the required amount of milk fol
the increasing population at the
reservation institutions and the
Jail, the Commissioners were told
! The present barn has been II
continuous use for the last 81
years and is a fire hazard, the
department said, adding that ont
fire could destroy the dairy here
of IS COWS.
The proposed canning factory
! would cost $4,000. The depart.
ment operates a 1,000-acre farm
and the surplus yield is canned
for future consumption by the
inmates. The old building, which
has been used for the last 2:
years, is dilapidated and too small
it was said. During the last year
10000 No. 10 cans were proc
essed.
The proposed dormitory build.
ing at the workhouse would bt
built at an estimated cost ot
$4,000. There is now bed space
to accommodate about 900 in
mates at the workhouse, it wa!
pointed out, but the population
is running in excess of 1,10O.
Makeshift Dormitory.
About 125 inmates are being
housed in a makeshift dormitory
in the basement of an old COM
missary building, and double.
decked beds in other dormitories
provide a crowded situation, dan.
gerous to the safe management
of unstable men," the city heads
were told.
The new building would bt
about two stories high, housing
about 100 inmates on each floor
Brick from the prison industries
brick plant would be used.
The department seeks $4,000
to complete construction of 6
fence at the reformatory, $50, ,00(
for constructing and equippine
refrigerated food storage room.
and ice-making facilities at the
workhouse mess hall and $25, ,00(
for a power shovel for the bricl
plant.
Also wanted is $4,000 to re.
store the shale shed and dryer
building of the brick plant, anc
$4,000 to restore the reformatory
heating plant.
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