Show jy D f lA LAWS W AND WAR VIAR REDUCE DUCt NUMBER Of C CONVICTS Only Prisoners s in Utah I Penitentiary at at Close Clos of I I Biennium Annual Report Report Re Re- port of Board Shows T THREE hundred and fifty- fifty three men nen have hayo been discharged dis dis- discharged discharged charged from the tile state prison during the past two years by parole pardon death and expiration tion of sentence while persons have bave been received according to ro the report of the state tate board of corrections to the governor and legislature At the close of the biennium November 30 1918 17 inmates remained In the prison The average number of persons persons persons per per- sons under conviction received at the state prison each month has fallen off since the coming of prohibition and the entry of ot the United States into the war the report asserts GREAT DECREASE There is no way the report says san of ascertaining the respective parts played by prohibition and the war in th effecting a decrease of the number numb r committed to the prison but the records records rec rec will show that decrease to be worthy of special mention During the first half year of 1917 the 6 average monthly receipts stood at 13 the last quarter of 1917 showed that the they had had fallen to an average of 8 each 8 each month while the monthly average for the last st quarter of this biennial biennia period has hlis been 3 Referring to the figures as to the total tola population on n November 30 30 1918 it is to be observed that on the thelast thelast thelast last day of the period covered by this report our oui prison population is smaller by 46 and 19 3 3 2 per cent FEW ESCAPES With the exception of a H fe fet escapes escapes escapes es es capes there have been no serious violations of the rules and regulations regulations regulations regula regula- nor has there been a single known instance of any attempt to escape from the walled inclosure of the tho prison buildings There have b been en a few attempts at escape and anil some escapes from outside the prison but notwithstanding the large force foice of prisoners working on the farm farmand farmand farmand and on public roads the escapes s have been kept at a very low minimum Most of the men who have succeeded In escaping have been retaken the report says PRISON MANAGEMENT The general spirit of the prisoners themselves it is stated has b n nand and is that of hopefulness and willIngness willingness willingness will will- to cooperate with the prison officials in the policy of doing that which will wor work the greatest good to the greatest number The present policy relating to management of the prisoner themselves is based upon a belief that the original Intent of the law was looking to imprisonment of I transgressors in order that others I. I may may be deterred from the com commission commis I i sion slon of crime against society and andI I also in order that the transgressors transgressors' ma may If possible be shown the error of lof their way and be transformed into persons who havea desire to live Ri as asgood asgood I l. l good citizens should and help carry i forward the every day worlds world's work It is estimated by the board that an appropriation of will be I Continued on page 3 DRY LAWS I I Continued from page 1 I required to maintain the prison forthe tor for j I the biennium of ot 1919 and 1920 I Accompanying the report Is a state- state I f mel meat of W W. W W. Mackintosh clerk of ot Ithe j I the state prison on the financial and I statistical workings working for the two years ear I IThe The board consists of ot Governor Go Bamberger Hamberger Ham Barn berger Judge C C. S. S Varian and J J. J C C. Lynch I |