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Show New Prison Outbreak Stirs Comment; Gov. Lee Starts Probe i Angry protests by prominent local civic leaders were registered reg-istered this week following the Sunday escape of Chester Brown and Joe Valdez. There have been a total of 12 prison breaks since May 18. Ardian B. Pembroke, chairman chair-man of the State Board of Corrections, Cor-rections, declined to comment on the newest break, but definitely def-initely indicated that no special session of the board would be called to consider the situation. Next scheduled session of the board will not be until August. Local Protests Leading Sugar House citizens showed more concern. M. L. Brain, president of the Sugar House Chamber of Commerce, Com-merce, said: "This is a shocking situation, and it most definitely points up the urgent need to get the prison pri-son mowed away from Sugar House or any other heavily populated area. Escaping prisoners pris-oners are a serious menace to residents of the area and we must move the prison for the protection of our citizens." Salt Lake's Mayor Earl J. Glade, himself a resident of the Sugar House area, voiced a similar sim-ilar sentiment. "They cannot take care of the prisoners in the present facilities facili-ties in Sugar House, and they have proved that they cannot," he said. "I feel extremely upset about this wave of prison breaks, not only because the prisoners should not be escaping escap-ing as they are, but also because of what it is doing to our community. com-munity. Escapees are a district menace to our citizens, and if prison guards 'have to fire at escapees they are almost certain to be firing directly in line with homes across the street. "The name 'Sugar House' is beginning to become synonymous synonym-ous with 'prison,' and this should not be. Our community is too fine a residential and business area to be known as. a prison location. We simply must get the prison transferred to the Point of the Mountain,. 1 where the men can be taken care of better and where it will be away from a thickly popu- r lated community." Gov. J. Bracken Lee, acted this week to find a solution to the problem. Monday he ordered order-ed a full scale investigation'' of prison conditions by a citizens' committee headed by Senate. President Alonzo F. Hopkins. |
