Show MEN FORBIDDEN tho sacramento union sayer discharged convicts from fol som prison are rounded up in sacra in a stogie day and told to move on that is all the state abes for or with these mou it them at the prison gate with money enough to go where they camo from with the result that agrest part ot them are turned loose upon sacramento to sell their get drunk with the money or be moved on to some other equally unoffending community it may bo argued lahat the state has done for them all that it was under obligation to do when it punished them and started them for home or the place they came from the state for ita own sake should continue its guardianship over these convicts from the time they leave the prison door until they have found employment and have become self sustaining the convict too is also a man he may have overlooked the tact himself for while he was in prison he went by number and was merely knowli as a con perhaps a good con or a bad con but always as a con never as a man and yet it is only as a man that a con can ever become anything else than a con the legislature in session now and now is the time to take this subject up and do something practical with regard to it it Is not an unsolvable problem there are plenty of states that have shown how and what to do the thing is to let no prisoners out except on parole and to let none ont even on parole until he lias a place to go and someone to be responsible tor him until he finds his useful alch |