Show PRISONERS SUPPORT THEIR FAMILIES WHILE SERVING TERMS i 4 2 1 4 4 1 1 DAYTON 0 O. Nor Nov 25 Dayton Dayton with the first probation system of the kind in the country is giving workhouse I prisoners a new deal and saving the wives and children of prisoners from fromI I poverty and public charity while they I are serving sentences Sending a family man to the workhouse workhouse workhouse work work- I house under the old system usually meant his dependents suffered from lack of f food and shelter They were punished though innocent along with the man Dr Frank D. D Garland former minister minister min mm- ister now head of the welfare department department depart depart- ment originated this new plan and is establishing a correctional farm where prisoners may work worle and live in the i open air and sunshine instead of beIng being being be be- ing cooped up in unwholesome Under the new plan a man under sentence to the workhouse may spend only the nights there During the day he lie works in some shop or factory making making making mak mak- ing a living for his family He comes and goes like the other except that instead of going going go go- ing home the prisoner returns to the I gO-I workhouse in the evening His pay is turned o m er oer er to the department department department de de- de- de of welfare A superintendent dent applies part to payment of fine or debts to the support of dependents the purchase of clothing and a saving fund Here is the tie case of prisoner No He w was s sent to the workhouse for a long term terra for support non He was a capable workman but drank up about all he earned Dr Garland got him a job in a fac fac- tory He earned the first six eLt weeks Grocery rent and coal debts were paid and the family got more money than when he was at liberty I I I r I g Field where whee prisoners work instead of being penned up in unwholesome quarters Also Pete the Cobbler who has been in the workhouse twentysix twentysix twentysix ty-six ty years and refuses to leave saying saying say say- ing nobody would be left to fix boys u Prisoner No spent all be he made for drink and was was arrested for nonsupport nonsupport non non- support after he pawned his household household house house- hold goods He had a wife and five five- children The judge gave him a years year's sentence The wife couldn't support herself and five children She kept two and the theother oth other r three e went to the childrens children's horn home e. e J A job was secured for this man In three months his employer had increased increased increased in in- creased his wages three times Soon he was paroled He took his three children out of the Childrens Children's home That's where the financial point I bobs up Those children cost th the pe people peo peo- pIe a year in the county institution institution I tion so aside from the humanitarian aspect the prisoners prisoner's reform saves the peoples money Precedents show that in cases of this kind under the old system the theman theman man usually keeps on going to the workhouse time after time and the children remain public charges Dayton women raised 1000 and hada had a survey made that showed 59 of I fenders had been arrested times and imprisoned times in five years I Dayton has bought acres of farm I land where prisoners will work and live in dormitories instead of cells I There will be only two cells for cells for unI unruly unruly un un- un- un ruly prisoners There will not be bars barson i I on the windows and guards will not I carry guns While preliminary building operations operations opera opera- I have been under way prisoners worked on the farm They ploughed tilled soil gathered crops and pitched I hay They became tanned and vigorous vigor vigor- ous instead of pale and weak i The revenue from the farm opera I as against that derived from the contract labor system which has been I abolished will make it more economIcal economical econom econom- ical for Dayton to take care of its pris prisoners ners under the new plan I |