Show A State Disgrace Trials of three prison inmates for murder committed within the prison walls arc embarrassing to every resident of because they reveal a sad state of affairs at the The spectacle of members of the board of and even the governor of the state being called as witnesses in defense of one of the defendants is about as fantastic as any court procedure on and certainly establishes a new low in management of any public We don't pretend to know specifically what is wrong at the prison or who is at but It is painfully obvious that there has been gross mismanagement and lack of authority The riot at the the counterfeiting of checks right in the the smuggling of narcotics and into the murder of one Inmate by the fact that prisoners have access to attic space all these facts and others that have been revealed to the public make the conclusion rather obvious that discipline at the prison has been if not It would seem to the outside observer in Utah's policy of of prisoners has and that a policy of punishment should be So the public has had little assurance that any of the policies which made the publicized abuses possible have been About the only stand In the entire affair that prison officials have taken is to heap condemnation upon the daily newspaper that first uncovered the facts and brought them before the Midvale Sentinel |