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Show H PRISON REFORMS. H California la Working For Better Oath B ing Facilities. M California has placed hemolf among H tho western states which seem to bo H awnklug to now policies In their prison ' administration. For some time there B was cousldemblo complaint of allogvHl B authiunted and brutal methods iu tho M troatmont of lumutea at Kolsom prison. H The roslguation of tho warden foU H- lowed, ami n sucvcHsor, J. A. Johnston, B i was sivuriHl and was thought to bo B thoroughly In touch with modern re- B , formatlvo practicttn and Ideals. B "Tho latter found," nays tho Survey, H "that thi oatln Imthiuic systom for the Hg uih of 1.18U prUHiuers ktmsWthl uf two B! tiilxt ami ono dltapldatml shower which B had urobabU' svu two dM(W or woro B of sorvlco. It had Iwtm tuiKMMtblo for B the men to obtalu a lath more fro B Qiioutly thau ottco In very two iwontha. B Mr. Johuston haw had plans drawn for B a new bathhouse containing showers, B plunge, tuba nnd drosslug woms, Tho B work of construction and furnishing B will bo done entirely by convict labor. B "Another urojivtisl Improvement is tho installation of an automatic vcntl-latlng vcntl-latlng nystom which will allovlato tho objectiomiblo conditions now existing. The cells In tho main building are occupied oc-cupied by from four to hIx men each. Thoao colla are closed by boiler plate doors, tho sole rentilation being for-ulshed for-ulshed by holos in the doors one and three-fourth Inches In diameter. It is nlso planned a soon as tho now walla, aiur tho new buildings nro constructed tu grade tho prisoners Into threu groups and to nbollsh stripes except for the lowest gmdo." |