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Show FAVORS "FUG" "FIRSTTERWIEFIS" Attorney General Barnes Recommends Rec-ommends Plan of Prison : Reform in Utah. Itccommendation is "made by Attorney General A. R. Barnes in his biennial report, re-port, which was Hied In the governor's office yesterday, for tho establishment of an Intermediate penal institution for ".'lrst termers," who .arc too old to go into the' State Industrial school and are not hardened criminals enough to be associated as-sociated with the convicts of the state prison. ! The attorney general has made a .borough study of this phase of criminology crim-inology and an cnthusiustlc advocate of the iden. On a recent trip to Wisconsin Wis-consin ho studied the workings of such an Institution ns It exists at the present tlnie In that state. lie says that It has been highly successful nnd has turned out. a large number oT useful citizens who might otherwise have become professional pro-fessional criniln.ils through association with slate convicts. Mr. Karnes's Idea' Is to have tho Institution In-stitution established In :i country district, dis-trict, where a large piece of land Is available. Then the young fellows can be taught farming and other useful trades. In Wisconsin the inmates pay for their board ;ind lodging- and bring In about 510 a year for each besides". This money Is placed In 'a bank connected with the school and when he prisoner terms are up they have a sum of money, a. trade and are-without the stigma, of u slate prison Henlcnco and can go out and fac the world with 'every change of ror forming and making good. At the same time they have, not beu associated with the younger boys of the statt: Industrial school, "hut have been with-men of their own age and therefore havr not fell their confinement as lliey would If they had been with voung boys. |