| Show i Men From State Stat t. t J Prison ris to Work in Open Without Armed Guards Guard To the average mind in the tho average average average aver aver- age age commonwealth the word convict conVict con vict vit brings a mental picture of a aBan aman aman man Ban with Ith hair hall cropped short wearing wearing wear wear- ing shapeless shapeless clothing of ot hideous horizontal liar hori stripes The word brings p pic plc c tures o of damp prison cells cels harred barred doors and narrow narow windows of cower cower- lug ing prisoners ever under the watch watch- ful mi eyes ot of armed guards But uil in the road camps of ot Utah there Ha Is a Different picture The honor men menat menat at the state prison who have been given glyen J places laces in the road gang SanS work under different conditions They wear no stripes but overalls The gu guards are armed ared of course but there are few of them Instead of cells the cels men sleep Bleep in tents Only ordinary precautions are taken to t keep them from escaping for the men are on honor b nor I But even a stranger picture will wl be developed when the state board of I corrections moves the roa road camp from Sevier county to Weber Weber county to work on the Weber Davis counties countes link linkof linkof of the state road Twenty five members mom memo b bers rs of the road gang will wl be left in Sevier county miles mies or more from the state prison with wih only two men mento mento mento to guard them These men prison guards will wl be known as supervisors and their principal duty will be to di- di the te work woric of ot the convicts and to handle the commissariat commissariat The twenty five men left in ia Sevier county to continue their ro road d work will wU sleep in tents in the open There will wi be no searchlights flaming about the tents tent There Tere will wi be no barbed wire entanglements no 10 sentries with wih rifles ries on their shoulders pacing back and forth to prevent escapes These convicts are on the te honor roll rol an and will wi be trusted to the limit Umit Tho The road camps were started as an experiment in Utah Uth They have been successful to such an extent that the system is being broadened to give the themen themen themen men who are worth while regardless of their offenses against law a chance 1 to revive their own ow self sel respect and their sense of personal worth and re ro- ro ra The sixty five men who will wi be taken to the Weber Davis counties countes road wilt will wi begin work at the south city limits of Ogden and will wi work southward r repairing pairing the nine miles of or concrete road alrea already dy finished They then will wi begin th the construction of a new link Unk linkof linkof of ot the concrete road and it i is planned that during the summer they will wll complete corn com nine mites miles of or new road making COQ a total of eighteen miles mies of concrete road between Ogden and Salt Sal Lake The work will wl be begun about April Apri 15 |
