Salt Lake Telegram | 1924-01-27 | Page 20 | Jails Too Crowded, Convicts Evade Law

I Jails Too Crowded Convicts Evade Law B BERLIN Ja Jan 26 By y U. U P. P Ger P.-Ger- Ger Germanys Germany's many's jails are arc full tull Prussia alone has guests behind stone walls alls A waiting waiting- list of ot many thousands more has been convicted and will serve time when the prison housing problem s s not so acute The percentage of ot criminals convicted convict convict- ed f d has more than doubled In Prussia Since the war despite the fact that much of ot Prussian territory was sliced off b by the Versailles tre treaty t Prussia fi is ally much smaller smaller but but her crime Mas Increased amazingly There are 00 prisons Prison including twenty penitentiaries and all are full I i lii Berlin alone about ten big pris- pris filled tilled to capacity These fig fig- uses Xa t-i t do not Include I 1 little 1 1 u r temporary arrest establishments v 1 prisons mean short sens sen- sen s and lax justice Wherever j ble overworked Judges levy fines I F I hy Y sentence trem to jails which tp already alread full fun Judges ask And 11 the more prisoners that are I ed behind the bars the less work rk f can do There is only one room I ift now how to eat and sleep Some I evade this by working prisoner prisoners prison prison- er ers outside o on public I projects But J unions s and ngu governmental er Ct i labor faced agencies faced with growing un unemployment em- em oppose oppose this t I. I A And Ald no new prisons are being built because the government has hils no t i