Show r I 1 OP RODERT MOUTON TY e 14 4 X 4 t t RF IX A t is M I 1 0 V A ZY A r S tile the old timo time prison where pris boners were lre treated like cattle 1 tolerated t ed prodded ind and brhen arlien by b irined guards until all of the manhood vas cowed out of 0 thera them or tin were nere made surl and ft a premium aas was placed on their escape doomed to ext inaction extinction Inc tion 9 will the prison ot of the future be one where walls nall and bars anti and gu guards ards are merely merel I 1 incidental nel and honor ind and inai rill ness nes aik oik and friendship are fundamental these are questions that hae arisen as a the re suit salt ot of the amazing prison reform methods that hane hae made colorado oregon and arizona the cen ter of attention in recent strange tales hae bae been told of convicts roaming without guards over the state firms farms adjacent to these prisons of squads being sent bent as tar far ana ama as miles where the would work for or weeks and then ever eier min man return to his cell of the honor by stein bringing as bonishing toni shing results and incredible as it mi may seem these stories are true NI tot not long ago the superintendent of the arizona late prison at florence v was as called to the long dis baze tance telephone one day da to recene this strange message from phoenix phoeni send bob anderson to tho the capitol on the next train this Is hunt speaking nom isow nob bob anderson was as a reputed bad man and the prison superintendent i was as revolving reaching in his mind whether he hid had any an guards that could be spared to accompany the prisoner dut but the suspense was nas soon ended G give ve him a ticket and some monea ind and send him alone the wice voice con linued tell him I 1 vant to 0 see him at the tha govern or ors s office the I 1 lifetime life fe time con conict let was a v ter ern ill at ease aben he be a arrived arii ed ilone alone at gov go arnor hunta office sen se eral cral hours later I 1 v mant nl you to go up on the verde and get the prison team the recent 1 1 elected governor an flounced after anderson s suspense had been re bield some pleas 1 alst V ote broo Tr OO tries es the th horses are e in a up in the n mountains costing the state eight dollars a month while out atthe at the I 1 rason we ne are pacing pa ing out between thiron five cne anil and forty dollars a month for another team epim to replace them arrangements were soon boon complo completed ted anderson IMS provided with inith a ticket to go as far as lie ho could by b train then lie he was given een money mones to buy bus groceries for lie he was mas starting on a weeks gouine out across the lonely desert and up into the wild rough r foothills 00 chills at the edge of the tambi rod mountains it nias as not long ions before the newspapers got hold 0 of f this scire held stor this most lash iash act 0 f the governor in releasing iele acing ecot free a mur derer who hadix I 1 been outside ot of prison enalls or beyond the fire of a dozen riflemen for years the governors closest advisers deplored what nhat he had jone done and the opposition newspapers papers hinted tint that the chief exec itne e must be either insane or secret li 15 conan con nning ing at the ner eo best the opposition boldly declared the governor was nas sorely tempting the comich donating him money provi provisions siong and the iho use of two of the states horses and thus equipped sending him olt off alone into the wilder nilder ness tile the week wore noro around and anderson andersen came back with the team to his lifetime prison cell arizona which has a larger proportionate prison population Opu lation any learned its farst lesson in the application of the tha radical and bold honor system among convicts lesson number two was nas not long lone in following another arizona state prison inmate a convicted forger was released on oil his its honor tor for a mouths time and given enough money to c arry him to ft N ashington D C that lie he might file pate patents rits for several of his in inventions tile the governor assumed responsibility but before the month came to an end roy J movers meyers had volunta voluntarily nl returned to his prison cell A banker friend of the governor was as still critical of the new prison honor tern tem so bo when allen a certain convicted forger was nas dis charged after bis prison term the banker ent him a bill for a formerly forged check tile the next niall mill brought back currency to the amount one ona might add instances from other oilier reform state prisons tint thit have hae adopted the honor Ss tem tein in oregon go governor arnor west learned learnd thit that the shoe aboc shops in the tate late prison at salem had out of date equipment so the governor called up the prison one day and requested that a certain life be sent dovin dmn to his office avi without phout guard the warden at first prote protested td but the convict came the governor bertli d with him tor for a few fenn minutes then sent the coliNi convict ct out to see the town tor for an houi bout at the third visit the governor explained nh he N wanted an ted to gt git acquainted the prisoner waa elnen mono mone to go to portland and bev new shoe shop machiner marh in the nimo name of the state it was rose festival nerk lit in the oregon metropolis and tile the aits it was nas crowded with visitors hut but no completed the business and re turned to bib life lifetime time prison cell the honor stani ins has Iro 1 babl never hid had a more moie thorough and satisfactory test than tit at tho colorado stilo elite prison in ill canon city under war den thomas J annan TV nan during the past three deall tills this prison his has hod had 1010 individual rr frIIo loners ners in tile the convict camps men with out jut guards soine boino 50 and even miles aw ay iy front from the prison have a national leputa deputa tion for loyalty loyally lc less b than one per cent have vio cited the thru it I 1 ledges by successful escape ot of cation city where one would t w Z Z f S sfa B I 1 f r r at ay Z 1 A l fl sm ai iss 4 J 1 x 0 az V A 1 ae in wi f A J Z 4 14 A 4 COLORADO r the contractors con coll even tile nv ft ell man V aged prisons today in 4 some ome of 0 tile the more progressive aa gres sive sivo states where the prison stalls are the restraining bonds of 95 per cent of 0 the inmates and where many of 0 the coll cell houses halt half century or a century arvn 22 are arc of the pattern of a V S ago with small tomb like rooms not large 1 y y enough for a man anil and in the past olten often mccu off ewe pled pied by W ar 4 CZ W evl 14 4 el r 1 enc I 1 I 1 ta V n at s AN I 1 aa lip 0 ni g 4 L I 1 ff t p I 1 ie I 1 I 1 tip wn IIA J NS assi t tv r 51 W 4 iz je A Z 14 i ay iy av g v y k 4 1 1 V look for the rough baseball field that every suburb boasts can be seen the big black score board the worn morn base lines and the benches but theio on the outsell ts of tho the town it its 5 a prison diamond riot not the village baseball held field across tile the fields on the distant plateau the huge gray stone cell block loonis looms up covner down donn backed up against invitingly sheltering woods for those that might vi NN ant to run away Is the diamond hire at once the great significance of tho the new nen era at tills this state prison bursts uron ulon the visitor measuring the di distance from prison to diamond with nith the eye eie one puts tills this proposition to himself linn it if the state ot of colorado can march convicts with mith a hand bind a halt half mile to a hall bill field it if the warden can call umpire the game and escape alive alie if ohp boy boys 3 can promise to refrain from sv swearing earing and really cut it out it if several hundred suppo supposedly adly desper ate characters the stuff the gun gunmen ilien are made of 0 lit in the popular imagination can sell ell and howl and jolly the placers player 3 and NN when lien the game Is oci return i without the loss of a man to the cell block and crNe in the long vast nast building a silence throughout the evening that causes the proverbial pin to echo cebo well what of our traditional distrust and dread ot of the convict convicts 7 entering the stockade between the huge cell block and the smaller buildings at the cinon canon city prison another surprise avails the visitor perhaps 50 men all in gri ganv are moving moning without ut restraint within tile the enclosure it makes one think ot of a big city schoolyard school ard some of the men are playing at quoits others are chiding each other and boxing intermittently pipes and cigarettes cig irettes aril ara much in evidence eldene warden lynan is big bodied bighearted big hearted md and joisil and his has much to tell and rejoice at in ill the canon city lie ile invites the visitor to stay overnight with w fill him well drice over the farni farm after luncheon lie he si says and tills this evening ill take 5 vou ou doan down n to my fill club just that club may bo be th tin visitor cannot fathom but hs he usually tabs it is now the dinner hour the trumpet blows for all the world like the dinner c call all ot of an atlantic linel lanei tile the men lit in fishlow cease their games ther Nal walking king ind their smoking and tall fall into line in tho the cell blok block Con contest with v N hat you will read lit in a minute or two the recent prison riots in another state slate where the militia had to bo be called to restore and where hogging flogging was re established contrast the tha old days davs at many mani state prisons under the contract where men were worked practically all front sun to sun eun an and d throw threw themselves from second story in window hicov s k to in mum jim es that they thea might riot not be obliged to do the racking deadly work of 0 at warden trans residence the houseman Is a colored convict faith ful ul in nay the butler Is a convict cont lct formerly the hardens Nar dens clerk the cook Is a convict and he certainly certain Is a cook the iNar wardens dens coachman coa climan Is 13 a convict the chauffeur Is it a conict co indeed aher eier ei er one turns one finds the prisoners ners filling places of trust the houseman ho weman closes up the house at ni night 9 tit lo 10 locks CIL s everything ever thing up goes up to the prison hilt half a mile ia avi a and Is tho the first one down in the morning and ana the m wardens arden s club Is nothing else thin than i a fifteen minute gathering of the house boys DOS and himself in his lotchen after the work of the dan da Is all lone done after luncheon tl t warden varden ordered a carriage and several miles around the firm farm droe dro 1 e tile the visitor loi for red ked NN viere ere seen prisoners at N work ork herber h he berei reer er one without Nit hout guards that mountain 0 er e r there I 1 tho he warden varden said Is our range sheep boy boi is a con let ile he goes clean over oer the moun tain lain atter after the beep of course he continued point ing tow tonn at aid d tile the east back ot of tho the mountain there Is nov no a gang cutting N mood they the liano hie no guilds krout halt half past four aou ou vill see t them tern c oming coraine donn domn the mountain n look at tint that old man in the girden garden g irden next net nil ml house ile he arks there all by b himself and you ou have to dihe him aban awi front from the vork all the men they ma may be are like one cue big famil of course the tello fellon 8 would rather have haie their liber liberty tN and be aai from the prison but some omo iva nai or other the 11 hie a e all developed api dpi eloped the e sense of lionor honor find and they stick soon ill pig shed vas as reached ind and the visitor nas mas earnestly earnest urged to get out and inspect eight tini tim porker hiedl able to saddle ind and about other pigs all under the care and training of 0 one prisoner vho aho grinned all over in his pride aou ou have seen some ome ot of the lr inso loners ners aniio vho are marden said bout oth v 01 king here lacre the ers are at ork on oil the na milouse ibous roid road camps ranches etc some as tar far as miles avia abai three sears ago our roid road camps anere largely largel experimental today toda the success ot of the plin plan from neri standpoint is definitely definite established Coloia colliado do oves ovea manyi man of its wonderful vond Nond erful thorough fares and access to its scenic beauties to the men who abo are liou housed ed in the gray gny prison at canon city many mani states havo found convict labor outside the prison N ella 06 unprofitable bee LUSO luse they the I 1 lave ave paid too mulli attention it to guarding the convicts snork ork on the roads is ought bought for or b by our prison ers vi NN e make it an object for them to do good work and not attempt to escape I 1 personally perso have had many min talks with each and eneid prisoner oner before he leav li aab b the arlion for the roid road camp and tills this talk Is the 1 k note to the tha dhole ii tuition ahe 1 lie feels that lie he 1 Is tall talk ing ine to one that his has ills his interests at heart and the ver very best in fit him comes uppermost so much tor for the refon nitle features of tile the honor society asks nhat Is the fanin in in caal benefit to us during tile lie 1310 1910 biennial period our convicts built LO iio miles of finished shed roid vay it at i i total actual cost to the rs of the state of 0 aj a saving 0 of ago in ranch products they the earned lit in aning on till they HIP e arned ind lit in cash earn ings they the made as 12 id during the bienimy period of 1911 1912 e greitl greatly out oui former lecoin haing aning con strutted ted in tile neighborhood of miles of permanent boidi ro ddn is i s considering the situation in colorado and basing out oui figures on oil ex e peri ence c ji all confident thit that anc c cm call construct 6 5 COO miles of the vera finest ro roid adas nas lit in the tell 3 jaari ear tor for less thin glnn doa 00 and this NN without adding anything to the burden of tin the taxpayers it it all in all the alic lionor honor system his has proven eminently successful from alic tit soundly sound soun Lt financial standpoints the country countr has been on ell riched ached broken and sin stil liden laden men hue have been rc formed and soctt li ll lib b been a gr breite t measure of good and milling citizens llian hall ill ILI before |