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Show A STORY OF HOW STORRS REFORMS PRISON LIFE In announcing the illustrated article on the Utah State Prison to appear in Malott's for February by James Mcpherson Mc-pherson Shockley, too much cannot be eald in appreciation of the valuable co-operation of Warden Storrs; making mak-ing possible the promulgation of authentic auth-entic and comprehensive description of an Institution of which the public is so meagerly informed. This will be not only instructive but interesting interest-ing literature not only for the people of Utah, but the world at large.. In matters of prison reform, Warden Ward-en Storrs is a name to conjure with, for his personal and practical interest In the betterment of conditions in the Salt 'Lake penitentiary has placed that institution in the limelight of public vision, and made Salt Lake stand out in relief from the background of specious spec-ious promises, -as the place where ' things are done, not merely talked of. The article deals with prison management man-agement and reform, aiming at human treatment and maintenance of the inmates, in-mates, showing the progress already made in this direction in the Utah Prison, and offering a lesson and precedent pre-cedent for the management of other and like punitive institutions. |