Show THE NEW PENITENTIARY j At last Utah is to have a new penitentiary peniten-tiary and surely she needs one for if ever there was a place where bad men are f made worse it is in the Utah Penitentiary I I Penitenti-ary Within its walls there are some I 4 I hundred men confined all the time men t who are there for the crimes which they J I have committed I against man and society ill Primarily they are there for the protection l protec-tion of society and next for punishment I and reform and it is doubtful if any one of these objects has been accomplished I society may have been protected but those who have wronged and outraged I 4 it are not punched or reformed and a when they leave the place of their confinement it con-finement they come out as graduates of a university of vice Could it well be I oth rwiR i when men vltn nm so bad that n n j Joo 1 r Hociety finds it necessary to restrain them are allowed to mingle together and pass i I the hours of their idleness in relating the U history their past crimes and holding K those in highest esteem who have been J I most atrocious in their crimes It is doubtful if criminals can ever be so reformed J I formed as to make them good and useful I 1 1 citizens but they can be made to feel 1 that the laws which are made for the protection of all have a force that they dream not of and that they are not confined t con-fined merely for revenge and to associate with those who arc congenial to them L Hut to feel this force it is necessary first I of all to separate them from those who l JI are as guilty themselves and who are I confined for the same reasons and place each prisoner in a cell by himself with no communication with his fellowman that in solitude and confinement he may reflect re-flect upon his conduct and the wrong he has committed against society It is necessary that there be some employment em-ployment for him that the mind may not become insane as it turns to contemplation and ponders over the 1 1 enigma of life To avoid this has been the aim of modern prison reformers and f 5 a stated number of hours of work each fI f day has been found the t best remedy I < 1 but whether this work shall be performed by each prisoner in his cell or by all together to to-gether in shops is a question upon which I those who have investigated the matter 1 are not agreed If we remember rightly I the great majority of the American 1 prisons adopt the associated labor plan in J J preference to the solitary labor plan I I while the JMigusn prisons prefer t pre-fer the solitary labor plan i 0 although the daily out door exercise It in English prisons is given collectively I I j in squads of one hundred Both systems l I have their advocates and both systems have produced good results although the i great trouble with the associated shophibor is that frequently it comes into competition I t with free labor and especially where the I I contract system of prison labor exists i As to contract prison labor it should not j be allowed to go any further than to defray the expenses of the prison and never to come into the open market and bid against free labor But these are things which are regulated by the Legislature and the policy of the people in regard to them must be indicated at the polls I It is to be hoped that the new penitentiary I peniten-tiary will be completed at an early day as the old is I one just such an one as Howard would have walked over Europe I 1 to see and devoted his life to ref 01 in It is such a place as the prisons of England were in the last century of which we read in the novels of Fielding and Smol 4 I lett and in some of Dickens works and which were a disgrace to humanity j where the pastimes are orgies and the I hilarity fiendishness When the new one I j IJ is done the prisoners should never I be allowed to know any nluo in 1 or about it but their cells and the place of exercise in which they should not be allowed to communicate I communi-cate with one another or to know who is in front of them cm or who behind them or J for what J crimes or for how long their I fellow prisoners are confined o n 1 |