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Show Daugherty's Prison Reform Proiect (JuT) fj) fTTTT? PRISON reform that will remold bad characters into good ones today to-day stands out as one of the big things the administration must do to Improve citizenship, Attorney General Dangherty declares, discussing a new system he has evolved for handling federal prisoners. The plan calls for the establishment of a new vocational draining plant, where prisoners can be taught trades and "otherwise rebuilt" so they may become useful citizens ifter th?lr terms expire. There are ibout 500 young fust-tenners In fed-?ral fed-?ral prisons who would be eligible for fransfer. The attorney general will ask congress con-gress to authorize him to lake over j .Tie of the big cantonments and re-i re-i ronvort it Into an educational institu- Hon, with Industrial features some-' some-' ivhat along thu lines of existing reform re-form schools. ''What many of these prisoners need more than anything else Is a rhance to mtke gond," said Mr. Piingherty. "I maintain that .-illzensliip ran bo made better by some system that will reconstruct these prisoners, restore their self-respo-n and equip them to face the world with some earning power at the n of their terms. "I can walk irjo any prison in the United States and pick out ten men I would willingly trust. That applies to any prison anywhere. Put those men on their honor, let thorn Vnow that there is some one who has an interest In thorn and they will make good." Mr. Daughfrty's psychology has been tested and found 00 per cent. lie cited his experiences with prisoner!! prison-er!! in reform institutions in Ohio and elsewhere. Ho has aided in the establishment estab-lishment and operation of some of these reform schools. He Ims watched the development of the inmates into useful citizens. lie has fottnd them in later onrs. la'.v-al.Mim;, hom-st wild their fellow men, and in some in stances filiiiia conspicuous roios is Iciid.Ts in civic underlukirii'S for community .et tenni 1 1, I |