Show HP Supt of or Chicago Ch House of Corice Correction tion Docs loes Awn with II It Chicago July 87 The lock stop Step has hns been beell formally abolished In III ix tho the Chicago house of ot correction by hy Supt John Sloan Hereafter Her offenders con run confined confined fined there for tor any an period of time will march two tun paces apart heads head erect creel hands A nil I arms by nad with 1 the kee mg time lImo step Sloan and his hili stall staff fl assistants n experimented for n a 1 month m with wit the inmates of ot the house of or cor car before deciding that the tho lock lockstep lockstep step could be done dono away awa with For Ol a it number of ot years rears various charitable organization and humane persons have hae been striving to 10 Induce prison authorities to substitute the free tree and step for the lock lockstep lockstep lockstep step At first 1 n great deal of opposition tion was manifest lt wardens and guards Insisting In they the lie could not control the prisoners In III line IIno without It Recently however several leading prisons de do decided i to abandon the lock step while other Institutions In Ohio Minnesota Wisconsin tin Michigan al are lire seriously considering c the tile proposition |