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Show WEBER COUNTY JAIL MAY BEC1DE1E0 Health Secretary Says New Prison and Courthouse Must Be Erected. Steps will be taken in the near future to compel the authorities of Weber county coun-ty to build a new county jail and courthouse, court-house, according to L'r. T. B. Bealty, secretary of the state board of health. Dr. Bcatty lias asked Joseph Monson, tLate advisory architect, to make a thorough thor-ough in;-pection of the buildings in Og-den, Og-den, wit.li a view to having scientific data upon which to bring condemnation proceedings. pro-ceedings. "Conditions in the "Weber county jail pre, I suppose, the worst that could be found in the United States," said Dr. Bcatty yesterday. "They are paralleled only in records of the sixteenth century, and certainly not in modern times. It i.j not too much to say that it is a greater crime to incarcerate any human being1 in that jail than any crime could be that was committed by a person incarcerated therein." Rer-ently the people of "Weber county voted on proposals to have bonds issued to cover the cost of erecting a new courthouse and a new jail. Largely by the vote of the rural population of the county. Dr. Bcatty said, the proposals were defeated. "The authorities had boon impressed with the necessity of bettering conditions," condi-tions," said Dr. Beatty, "and they sought to solve the question by the bond issue. But it was defeated, the people failing to realize that since the buildings must be erected, because the present ones will be condemned, they must pay for the structures either by direct taxation or bonds." |