Show Mrs I rs Wi a t W Auld ouM r Keep Prisoners at Work Word By JOSEPH S. S United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON May 25 25 Idle ness breeds reeds crime therefore prisoners prison prison- ers era In state county and federal Jails should be made to wor work hard hardat at least eight hours a aday day That is the opinion of ot Mrs Airs Mabel Walker assistant United States attorney general In charge of prohibition enforcement The stone pile Is not to too severe punishment for criminals Mrs told the United Press in nn an n interview today Strenuous manual lab labor r allows c convicts no notime notime notime time to fret over personal troubles or plan future depredations against society she said All inmates of ot prisons should be employed employ d In some useful work she said Tasks sho should ld bo o e assigned with consideration to physICal fitness fitness fit fit- ness but all should be healthy enough to do Some sort of ot work It they ad are not then they sh should uld be bein bein bein in a hospital Bankers serving servIng- sentences for embezzlement bootleggers bandits burglars and pickpockets should be made to earn their board and keep regardless of their previous character character character char char- acter standing A Allowing prison inmates to play checkers cards and sit Idle instead of making them work does not turn them out out- better citizens when their sentences are finished It gives them time to hatch up new ideas for tor criminal activities activIties' when they are released Mrs said that when a man is sent to prison he should go there thero for tor punishment and not for rest or amusement Putting all convicts to work she pointed out would practically repay the mil mu- Ions lons of dollars spent annually In maintaining prisons The prohibition law affords In Inadequate Inadequate inadequate In- In adequate punishment of the commercial commercial commercial com com- mercial trafficker In liquor she said Heavy Jail sentences should be given liquor dealers instead of allowing many bootleggers to escape es- es es escape escape es- es cape with small fines tines only to re repeat repeat re- re re-I re peat their law violations |