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Show JOLIET. 111.. April 14. Segregation Segrega-tion 62 hardened criminals from the' first offenders is the best way tol reduce crlrrfe. convicts i:i the state I penitentiary here deeli red .'i a hear-1 Ing conducted by the law enforce- ; meet commit?"- of .the American1 Bar' association to got the criminal's' view I ! r,r 11 Sanaa .-.f laSv Itran Irlns If.: lei r.': i-hfj the prisoners express their oplnlonst the committee said Its members mem-bers all agreed with the convicts. ! BRIBE MONEY LACKING. The committee, made up of nation- I ally known men. heard fiom wit-1 nesses stories of organized crime rings; particularly t'hlcago, bribery of police official and of "schools for crime " One prisoner told of perfected ! crime organizations in Chicago which uui .tnicei to tr i ,t man uul r,f ;n v ' trouble through graft and bribery 1 and explained that had he been able, to raise $6oo he could have bribed officials In the state attorney's off ice I and would not now be in the pen -tentlary for a robbery he committed. commit-ted. tine convict saii prohibition in creased crime, while another termed the Cuuk county Jail at Chlc-ugo the 1 re&test "criine sohool" in the iouii-i try SeVefral explained thut the average aver-age younc first offender is experl-J enced ad efficient in crime after serving a sentence with oUI tiiiir? j IrllO PUt liini through a course of in-j I Ktriiction during the term LAXGl isniNr, in JAI1 It was to avoid this that segi5rn-: i tion v.-as urged by the convicts They I also point' il "nt that a man accused ' of crlni1 should be brought to trial promptly and not left languishing in j i :lic j.nl "school for crime'' for a long: i mi,' before his guilt or innocence wan 1 . detcrmlhe'd Innocent men were made Into cilmi ils, It was said Most of the convicts called before the committee, were well educated and unusually Intelligent. One was a college man. It was agreed that their names should not be made known |