Show the penitentiary referring to our strict strictures ares yesterday on the Malinger management nent in the penitentiary ar y we are arc informed tint that institution h N in a sad state or of repair tile alio friends of the warden allege lu dilapidated condition co edition it is thit that in Ir present almost impossible to keep beep secure the tha prisoners committed to his bis charge inthis if this be true and to a certain extent we have no doubt it je there his has been great on the we recollect that at fit the part of somebody list last se scion ion of the legislature it was apparent apparently t ly accidentally discovered that there is ii in ili tile the public treasury at washington a large sum of money viz riz eight thou thousand sanI dollars dollar deposited to the credit of the penitentiary of utah this money which the general government had freely provided for the accommodation of the territory has lain idle for a number of simply because the cloper for its transfer have not been made out and forwarded in conformity in with ith law wu we understand tint in pursuance of a resolution of the Legisla necessary steps have been taken to secure this fund fand and that vp money moncy will vill soon be here we trust that it v will ill be judiciously and promptly applied but why we vie would ak did not the legislature 1 temporarily from tile the i morlat legislature lands sufficient to make secure this public A few hundred dollars judiciously expended would surely enable the warden to keep babe the few pr prisoners in lis his hands bands but society oi 01 its representatives senta tives haie lia e no right to take ad adan antao tago of their own oven wrongs wrong it is the duty ditty of the community to provide the means necessary to properly prop eily cily punish and by punishing prevent dime and it should never be forgotten that it is the maxim as well of law as of ethics ethic that it is the certainty of punishment not its ecle lity which immunity from crime incarceration in the utah milk penitentiary as now conducted would bo be simply a braid id aaice nv were ere not the consequences so set sei ious ions and so tragic we know of an instance of a pi prisoner ioner i oner there mends friends sometime since viele seeking a an don one day them that lie he v would like to know low how they were getting along for said lie he 1 I 1 shant stay bele any longer it thele is no 1 of a pat baidon ion upon the adi ad ice of his 11 lends lie ike consented to remain a while longer tile tho police ate aie well aware that penitentiary convicts convict s have been in tile the habit babit of leaving lc iving their cells almost x whenever bell they desired to do so and perambulating the streets of salt lake city it is even said that dives when hu be was killed had bad in ill ill his pocket tho the paison key with he be obtained egress front from that model institution did lie ho obtain it I 1 how is it that a convict can get possession of that which should never be out of the sight ol of lis his keeper when auch things are lile it is no wonder that tin tile penitentiary is 11 little ittle regarded reg aided by cilmi nals or that they come colne and go a as they list we trust that the whose duty ditty it is to look into and lemady these glaring c evils ils will do so iso at once and not leave the community en ell at tile the melcy of every petty thief thie either felther in ill or out of tile the penitentiary |