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Show Aid for Convicts on 'Road Back' Studied - &h --js. STUDY NEW STATE PRISON POSSIBILITIES FOR UTAH Governor Henry H. Blood, left, seeks ideas from Jamei P. Davis and Alfred Hopkins Needs of Felons Spur Plans For Utah's New Penitentiary Reported urgency of providing work to rehabilitate state prison inmates Friday was giving impetus to plans for the proposed new penitentiary. Parting word of James P. Davis, Washington, D. C, executive secretary sec-retary of tha federal prison industries indus-tries reorganization administration, to Governor Henry H. Blood, members mem-bers of the state board of corrections correc-tions and prison officials was that the problem of giving prisoners work to fit them to return to society so-ciety must be given first consideration considera-tion In selection of a site for the new prison. Mr. Davis and Alfred Hopkins, New York City, architectural con- - farm hitherto unused, so I hope to have at least 100 men at work there shortly," Mr.' Nebeker said Friday. Mr. Davis organization has completed com-pleted a year's study of prison methods In Utah, report of which ia to be released shortly. It waa reported. re-ported. The last state legislature appropriated appro-priated 1100,000 for a new prison site, but Governor Blood haa not yet appointed the commission to select the sits. sultant lor tne rlnA, were Bait Lake City visitors Thursday. "Prisoners are incarcerated In Utah for an average of no more than two years, so it Is of great importance that they be given prison pris-on employment which will fit them for the time when they return to society," Mr. Davia said. Hs reported pleasure, however, at the effort being made by Warden Owen Nebeker at the state prison to keep more prisoners busy on the farm. "We have 51 men working now, but there ia considerable work to be done leveling portions of the |