Show PAROLE OFFICIAL IS OUSTED AS TOO REACTIONARY Woman Held Lacking in inTact inTact inTact Tact in Dealing With Charges BEDFORD Nov 20 Following Following re reports reports reports re- re ports of recent disturbances by prisoners prisoners prisoners pris pris- In the state reforma reformatory ory for women in Bedford it was announced that Miss Bell Murphy for several years parole officer has been dropped from rom fhe the service and also that the officials are going to to try to to reform some same of the methods methods methods' of attendants there The managers also announced that they will ask the superintendent to change her policy polley of withholding news from the public Miss Murphy according to a member member member mem mem- ber of the board of managers was 1 asked to resign because it was felt she was out of sympathy with advanced advanced ad ad- methods of handling pris pris- De ause she felt that the civil service liw protected her in the posItion position position tion according to attaches she refused to relinquish her post A legal contest is expected to follow in inan inan inan an effort to reinstate her OBSOLETE IDEAS The parole officer visits all prisoners prisoners prisoners pris pris- released upon probation and sees that they observe the terms of their parole or else she returns them to the reformatory to serve the maximum maximum maximum max max- of their sentences One of the managers stated that Miss Murphy has obsolete ideas of ot strictness and in his opinion has talked to paroled inmates in a way to discourage them The managers hold that the parole officer be conciliatory and try to cheer up and encourage the girls after they are released just as they are now treated beforehand The managers have advised Mrs Talbot the superintendent to call call- to together together together to- to gether the older attendants who still insist upon strict firmness and frown upon reform methods and try to en enlist enlist enlist en- en list them In the reform movement PUBLIC AFFAIR Because of their reactionary views it has been necessary to discharge some of the old attendants in the last few weeks while others have resigned The action of Mrs Talbot in trying to suppress the names of prisoners who escape or 01 refusing to give In Information information information in- in formation about unusual disturbances does not meet the approval of the managers evidently She very re recently recently recently re- re stated that disorder inside the reformatory did not concern the public public public pub pub- lic but was an internal affair She must take the public into her confidence said a manager if she is to get the proper public support Bedford is a public institution She ought to give out cut to the public and andI to the newspapers notices of escapes I and I will try to get the managers to toso so advise her I I |