Salt Lake Telegram | 1932-07-18 | Page 2 | Only Few Prisoners Gainfully Employed

I I I I Only Few Prisoners Gainfully Employed I IOnly Only 18 per cent of Utah's state prison inmates were eng engaged In income income inome in- in come ome producing pursuits such as farmIng farming farm farm- ing and manufacturing in 1931 according according ac ac- cording to a study of ot prison conditions condi lions made by Miss Margaret Davis welfare worker and daughter of Warden Warden Warden War War- den R. R E. E Davis Approximately 53 per cent of the thc pr prisoners were completely idle during that period Miss Davis says in her survey while 30 per cent were assIgned as assigned assigned as as- signed to maintenance work such as cleaning clenning and operating prison shops The Thc survey was made for and is incorporated In a thesis submitted to the he University of ot Utah as a partial fulfillment of ot requirements for a masters master's masters master's masters master's mas mas- ter's degree Miss Davis reviews prison study from rom the time of the of Egypt to the thc present day and to correct correct correct cor cor- the thc faults at the thc Utah institution makes the following recommendations Lions Cooperation of civic and state stale organizations organizations organizations or or- in carrying out a program program pro- pro gram of publicity to educate public opinion pinion as to the need for a prison labor abor program creation of ot a board of control to administer all aU state institutions institutions institutions in in- and agencies appointment of a warden and all aU other prison cm em on a n merit basis classification of all inmates immediately after their arrival at the institution and reassignment reassignment reassign reassign- ment to more exacting tasks as Individual Indi Indi-I Indi vidual progress warrants abandonment abandon ment of ot the thc prison overall factory and reinvestment of the capital in ina ina a project offering ottering a greater degree of vocational education value assignment assignment assign assign- ment extent of mechanic inmates to the state road commission shops and removal of the thc shops to the prison if necessary operation of the thc prison farm as a vocational vocational vocational vo vo- vo- vo and scientific experiment station station station sta sta- sta- sta tion appointment of a committee to tomake tomake tomake make a thorough study stady of the thc prisons prison's labor abor needs and md recommend legisla legisla- to tion-to ion to the thc state legislature