Show I Laxity at of the City Jail t A it A LITTLE matter of discipline must be settled S sL L by Chief of Police Reed E. E on his hisS S return from the east in the near future He will have to decide what to do do if anything about if anything about the action of a city jailer who permitted a prisoner prisoner prisoner pris- pris oner to leave the jail last Friday night for 5 about an hour and a half in order to have his shoes repaired Captain E. E A. A Hedman acting chief in absence declared that since Chief has as been in office it has been a strict rule that no trusty or prisoner is to be allowed to leave the grounds unless accompanied accompanied accorn- accorn by a guard f Captain Hedman recalled that in previous times trusties have left the premises and committed petty pett thefts or begged money with with- which to purchase narcotics This latest case of laxity at the city jail recalls a somewhat similar evidence of iny int in- in t I. I y efficiency last winter whiter when it was revealed i that at dope had been smuggled into the jail for forthe the use of addict inmates In that case it was' was learned the dope was brought in by jailers d themselves who had made a practice of doing do ing a favor for prisoners by going to a certain certain tain tam Chinese restaurant to get them a cup o al coffee The dope was in the coffee f. f t. t This business of jailers doing favors for j jil l inmates is intrinsically wrong r ng It opens the way vay to many abuses A jail is a place for p punishment of law violators Any privileges should uld be prescribed by jail regulations and n i should ever be allowed to leave leav th the jail a an and wander around the city on his hisS S own |