| Show t JUDGE BOSONE PRISONER RAP ROTTEN JAIL Farmer Charges Hogs Given Better Treatment Salt Salt Lake City's jail Tuesday Tuesday Tuesday Tues Tues- day was characterized by p prisoners prisoners pris pris- is- is I and city officials alike as filthy unfit for human habitation habitation habitation tation a dirty rotten mess and a disgrace to Salt Lake City John Richard Goth 22 22 West Sixth South street told City Judge Reva Beck Bosone that he treated hogs on his farm better than he had been treated l i in city jail Goth formerly of South Dakota pleaded guilty to drunken en driving and amid was sentenced to pay a fine of and serve 45 days in jail with the jail term suspended upon payment of the fine After he had been sentenced Goth asked Judge Bosone if he could say a few words about jail conditions Given permission he said I am m a farmer from South Dakota anc and on our farm we have lots of hogs We treat them like hogs togs are supposed to be treated Here in Salt Lake City you treat human luman beings in your jail worse than we treat our hogs Goth exhibited the top of a tin can which he said he had been forced to use as asa a spoon since Sat Sat- J V It v Is that true Judge Bosone asked a jailer who had brought Goth to court Yes the jailer replied We dont don't have enough spoons Goth broke in with a remark that you can can get lots of them at a 5 and 10 cent store Slept on Floor The youth also complained that he le had been forced to sleep on the floor loor for three nights with only one blanket under him and only one over him He said he had pressed Dressed pressed his overcoat into service as a blanket The boy is absolutely right about jail conditions said Mayor Ab Jenkins Our city jail is a disgrace Mayor Jenkins pointed out that the he city commission recently had applied for federal funds to construct construct con- con a new jail The new structure structure ture ure he said would be on the site o of the present No 1 fire station and would be atop a new fire head head- quarters Go ahead and blast the jail conditions as hard as you like maybe it will help wake up some of f citizens and give us public support for the proposed new building Mayor Jenkins said I Judge Inspects Jail I Immediately after court Judge Bosone inspected the jail and anil found it t fairly clean except for the bedding From a housewife's possessive Continued o on Page pae Five Fl I Column Four PRISONER RAPS ROTTEN JAIL Continued from Page Pale One point of view it would take the full time of the jail staff and all of the trusties to keep it clean The fault lies in the building itself Judge Bosone said The building depicts the old I ideas of punishment and is not related in any way to our present ideas deas of penal institutions Judge Bosone said The judge said she found pillows without pillow cases and filthy blankets throughout the jail The halls mils and floors she said are clean but the bedding terrible What we really need is a new building Nothing can be done With the present structure The city government will ask Where it will get the money My Lord they could have obtained federal money at practically any anytime any anytime anytime time during the last six years and built up this whole corner The city government should set an example for cleanliness Fault Lies In n Structure Mayor Jenkins reiterated that chief fault with the jail lies in its structure rather than the way it is supervised He said that Goths Goth's complaint was absolutely justified except where the quality of food might be concerned The food there is good In fact I wouldn't mind eating there myself myself myself my my- self the mayor declared Mayor Jenkins said he was not aware of a shortage of spoons at atthe atthe atthe the jail and pointed out that prisoners prisoners prisoners pris pris- never were permitted to use knives or forks as a matter of precaution Prisoners' Prisoners food is cut up for them to preclude need of knives Chief of Police Reed E. E declared that the jail has been the concern of all of us and should be rectified The mayor he said has been working for several months attempting attempting attempting at at- tempting to get federal aid for construction of a new jail If you are going to tear down the jail and build a new one which should be done it takes time The chief said he has not gone into the spoon phase yet but you cant can't build a new jail by investigating investigating investigating gating a couple of spoons Anyone Anyone Anyone Any Any- one who has any knowledge of the situation knows that we should have a new jail Lieutenant Clayton Blank who has charge of the jail was not available immediately for comment comment comment com com- ment but subordinates attributed admittedly bad conditions to structural structural structural tural defects of the building and overcrowding Terms Jail Rotten Captain Sherman Falkenrath in charge of the uniformed detail of the police department said the jail is a dirty rotten filthy mess Captain Falkenrath said the jail is built to accommodate 58 men and 11 it women There were 91 persons in the the person 69 jail Tuesday Tuesday Tuesday Tues Tues- day morning he said which meant that many prisoners were forced to sleep on the floor The particular cell block In which Goth was confined Captain Falkenrath said was constructed to house 32 prisoners Because of overcrowded conditions conditions conditions condi condi- 43 prisoners prisoners prisoners-li 11 more than for which accommodations were provided spent provided spent the night in the block Goth was one of the 11 who slept on the floor he said Judge Bosone said she found conditions in the women's quarters cleaner than in the mens men's but still not conducive to teaching girls what a table top should look like It could be much better Judge Raps Filth Judge Bosone declared emphatically emphatically emphatically cally that there is absolutely no excuse for the city to maintain such a filthy institution She placed blame on people who sit around year after year knowing of the bad conditions and yet doing nothing about them She lauded efforts of Mayor Jenkins Jenkins Jenkins Jen Jen- kins and the city commission toward obtaining federal funds for fora a new jail These men are jammed in there like cattle in a box car she declared declared declared de de- and the unfortunate thing is that most of them are not bad men Some are alcoholics true some are derelicts true but most of them would not commit robbery robbery robbery rob rob- bery would not commit burglary and are not hardened criminals Captain Falkenrath said the jail building is a go good d one structurally structurally structurally ally but otherwise it is entirely inadequate Theres no fire danger he added add add- ed ed but all types of facilities either are lacki lacking g entirely or are inadequate He mentioned spec i f fie i c a all 11 y plumbing facilities which he said were both and quate Recently he reported consideration consideration consideration consider consider- has been given to proposals for removing the ballistics bureau from the jil basement and making the space available as additional quarters for the overflow of pris pris- I |
