Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1923-11-27 | Page 6 | Jail Annex to be Built

JAil ANNEX TO TO BE BUilT City to Provide Separate Place for Juveniles In Custody Members of the city commission today Instructed the cl city engineer and the city building Inspector to prepare preparo II plans ns for an annex to the present city rut building to provide a 0 juvenile detention ward Ith roe ro- re request quest to rush the tha preparations so that construction con can begin as LS soon lIoon QS Os possible The new addition Is to cost between betl een an Mayor Frank Francis said Bald AWAY FROM TOOM ILU HARDENED nNED The s said ald the new anne would provide accommodations Llona for boys boia bo sand and girls who maybe maybe may maybo bo be either cither In n temporary custody or 01 who nu may be bo held for tor various of tenses There will 11 be bo no cells clIs In the now 1101 addition and everything ever thing tend to lend the appearance ot of a jail will be eliminated The ne new building will III provide a place where the younger prisoners may be bo held Ild without being kept In 11 Inthe Inthe the regular jail where they thoy may como come In contact Ith hardened pris prie prisoners onera To be held lcM In this place rath er than In tn jail will also the tho stIgma of the young people been held behind bus bars the tho commis commis- commissioners commissioners stoners said sald SWIMMING SHIMMING S NG POOL The city engineer was wa also In- In Instructed ln to prepare plans for tor the installation of a swimming swimming- pool at Lorin Farr park A dam In the Ogden river Is to be begun bogan at once It was said eald This move wu was wa origInated originated originated by members of ot tho the Child Culture club of Ogden Mayor l Fran Fran- Francis cis said sald