Show MEN SHOT LIKE DOGS IN INT THE TEXAS Startling Official Report Just Filed P Paints Paint int Dark hark Picture Pic Pic- Picture ture of Conditions of-Conditions Prevailing There AUSTIN Tex Sept J. J The Thc The committee committee appointed h by the I last t Legislature to Investigate th the Stat Stata penitentiary and kund other Institutions has Just nIt flied a no report that has hns cau caused d a LL l sensation e fn political circles According to the report the States Slates prison should bear the le legend end Abandon hope hop all nil ye e who enter here Few men Incarcerated therein get out alive If It th the official report may bo ho relied oiled on on and this affects the short term as tS well as the lon term long term men for those that are arc not shot down clown on little or no provocation are worked to death Those that do not succumb to bullets bullet within the walls wails or overwork leave th the thi penitentiary In so 50 weakened a t condition n that thal they they become the the early prey of d death The Thc convicts arc are shot down like dogs rs according to the thc official language of the thc report and are worked until they drop dead In fn their thelt tracks track under a system for tor which the people of or Texas must m some MOle da day be bc held responsible Flesh and blood Is held heid BO so cheaply In the Institution according to the com corn that the average u length of or life liCe among th the prisoners IB is only seven years cars The system In vogue by which convicts are leased out Is Is denominated d a disgrace to th the State Invalid convicts are arc forced t tb tO work with th the healthy hea and strong stron- and the State law on whipping Is disregarded by the wardens and guards the thc committee allees The report recommends that the Icon contract tract system and share farms be abel abol I hed term Short-term men should hould be kept In the counties In which the they are arc con con- anti and provision pro should be made for or the parole parol of or men with good records |