| Show LESSON OF PRISON OUTBREAKS by 7 rr DR HASTINGS tl it KAHT HART penology expert TUSON outbreaks do not just happen there Is always a reason mistakes in the treatment of criminals in or defects of the law or P out of prison the recent rebellions are traceable directly to cruel overcrowding poor feeding violent increases of the length and severity of sentences withdrawal of the long established practice of re reducing time served in consideration of good conduct the sharp curtail ment of the granting of paroles and above all the restoration of the ancient inscription above the prison gates abandon hope hll all ye who enter here up lip to five years ago life prisoners and those sentenced for twenty thirty or forty years lived jn in hope of a pardon a commutation of sen seni i tence or a parole end and it was a prison proverb that the worst men made the best prisoners but today that hope has been replaced by deep despair aind a bitter resentment which are intensified by the fact that in ma many ny cases of two tivo men wor working king side by fidei and sentenced for offenses ca which differ little in enormity one ma may v have haveis a tw 0 or three times as aa long as that of his fellow workman I 1 outbreaks occur because it is fact that the rich and influential criminal can hire able criminal lawyers to defend him and can command the aid of influential politicians it ibias to intercede in iii his behalf and thug thiis escape in whole or in part the just penalty of his misdeeds the ne newly aly awak awakened eed n public interest in the crime question should be continued and extended and prison authorities should be sustained in the development opan adequate program for the remedy of existing evils |
