Show PRISON HEADS fl FLAY Y YIl Il W BO O REPORT PO T Wardens Plan to Challenge Wickersham Group for Blanket Indictment C Br fly r A o l ted Peru NEW YORK Sept Prison O Prison wardens from 40 states are arc preparing preparing ing to bombard the Wickersham commission commission com corn mission with criticism for its recent attack on brutality In American j enal institutions I An outlet for their feelings has been arranged In the form of a special cial session October 22 in connection with the thc sixty-first sixty ann annual l conST congress s of the American Prison association which opens In Baltimore October 19 The Thc wardens probably will center their attack on what they believe to tobe tobe tobe be a blanket indictment contained in the sixth of 23 conclusions in the Wickersham report That conclusion In was as I 0 follows We find our present system m of I penal discipline to be traditionally unintelligent and not Infrequently cruel and Inhuman Brutal disciplinary disciplinary disciplE disciplE- I nary measures have no Justification They neither reform the criminal I nor give security t to the prison We recommend they be forbidden b bj by bylaw Ilaw law 0 The wardens are arc planning to ob obJect object object ob- ob strongly to that and other parts of the report which they deem sweeping sweep- sweep tag big generalizations unwarranted bythe bythe by the thc facts It was said |