Coalville Times | 1898-01-07 | Page 3 | New Work Shop Law

Nsw Work NHiUwi I Iloston, Mass , Jan 3 A new law limiting tha production of goods In the work shops of Massachusetts ttate prison and other penal Institution went In affect today, Tliu law provides that not orcr 30 per tent of tho number of Inmates of any ponal Institution of tho state having mora than 100 In tmatct, shall be employed In any ono industry, except In cane seatng and the manufacture of bills. Tho chief objection to the law It the enforced I Idleness of prisoners, which makes them restless and illflloult to control