Show I fOIt l' l CO iX A year veal ago hardly anyone anone seemed tl to want to give tho the released prisoner oner ajob a ajob job A year followed of oC Mr Osborne and good times and th the gre great t change eliane han e ehas has come Today the tho special employment employ ment secretary of the Prison Association tion of New r York Rays as a's ho lie is able to re refute refute re- re fute the statement frequently made that discharged prisoners are returning to crime because no nobody od will hire hiI them In July 1916 he reported that er e every bodied able d man that applied during the tho month monh of June and was willing wining to work and take tako talt what was found for tor or him wo was wt placed within a few f days Wages ran from 9 to 20 0 a week weak Ono One prisoner ex-prisoner writes that he Is getting 18 8 18 a week as bookkeeper and general clerk and ane Is going to repay tho the de deFrayed defrayed In his behalf Another Another An An- other of or the Ira gray brotherhood says saS as that he ha has suffered an Increase In In salary and that ho he IK is not kicking about the tho Saturday afternoon holda holiday that has haa hl been dispensed with Good will swill wll toward the released pr pris- pris pr- pr oner Is Js spreading e Hundreds Hundred of ot Nt New NewYork NewYork York merchants merchant were at asked ked last winter to give o gl employment mt to men Just out of or prison A manufacturer having taken men telephoned Into the office saying that th tho th men were doing so sowell 10 o owell well wel tho that L he wondered If i th the they had bed not given Jvon false also statements as ns to had a prison record for the purpose of 0 1 securing positions American n Review of Rc lews I 1 |