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Show l liOTH t irn: 01 I'H i:r.s. ( If rci't'iit j-purs u siirt of .supi't' si'iiii-nii'iitiilism si'iiii-nii'iitiilism luis ejiiint'tl f't'oituil th;il U cniitiiuinlly howiiiie; for iiriitt'ctitiii for tho criiiiinul :ijr;tinsl Iho uulliurity phit'pil ovor him. 'J'lio jilaiti f;io:., howovor, tiro Unit tho ollii't't-i of poii.tl institutions ;tro much more in nootl 01 protection from tho iissuilis of their wards. This laet lias fioeu well illustrated illus-trated by- two recent scandals, one at iho reform school and ihe other al th" penitentiary, in both of which one of Ihe land of convicts lroin which the of livers need protection has liivuri d prominently. prom-inently. There is a simple remedy for this statu of affairs. There ouplu to lie matron:-. al both the penitentiary peniten-tiary and reform sthnol who would h:te i. .1 t'w('i ehanro of female prisoners. Their pre-enee ami responsibility would render such nasty scandals inipo-isilile. l iider Ihe present (system any of the ollieials of our penal institutions is liable at any time to be made the ielim of a eon-fpiracy eon-fpiracy such as mi are now tieiis: treated to. We ou;ht,!iiii,in this city to have a police matron. .N-arccly a week passes t hat a feuiale prisoner does not find lodging at tho ciiy jail and that the ollicers who have charoe of her .should he exclusively of the male frontier is an injustice as great to thorn as it is to their prisoner. |