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Show SET OF PRISON RULES DRAWN UP BY EXPERT Convicts Who Advance Can Live in Cottages Outside of Walls JOL.IET. 11!.. May 0 An iron hand and mere confinement "make convicts and no more, s progressive scale of privileges and freedom within a prison makes men." according to John ij Whitman, superintendent of Illinois prison", under whose supervision the new state penltentiarv at Statesville. ntar here, ls being oonstructsd, The architecture of the building lu designed design-ed to facilitate application of the Illinois Il-linois Idea." or progressive merit system. sys-tem. Prisoners will be grouped according ac-cording to their grade of advancement under the system and ea li group will be assigned to oiv of the eight cell-houses, cell-houses, the second Of which will be completed and i" use lthin a few-days. few-days. Prisoners will move from cell-house cell-house to cell house wlih their advancement advance-ment in grade. The plan provides that prisoners may pass through the following stages: confinement under strict prison discipline; dis-cipline; lm reasing opportunity to merit mer-it more confidence on the part of prison pris-on authorities, positions of trust within with-in prison walls; life !n cottages outside the prison but under the supervision oi prison authorities; parole: freedom. The system Is an OUtgTOWth of psychological psy-chological stud, of convicts which a' conducted by Superintendent Whitman the late Warden Everett .1 Murphy and a staff of perls during tho last twenty years |