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Show EDITORIAL Prison Puzzle Persists THE pul,Vc is completely befuddled in regard to conditions at the Utah State Prison. The governor's special investigating committee recommended recom-mended that Warden Mason Hill be discharged immediately for alleged incompetence. Shortly after the committee report was handed in, it was rumored that prisoners had circulated a petition to keep Warden Hill there. All except 10 inmates of the prison supposedly were signators of the petition. The next development was the intimation in a newspaper story that Governor Lee would probably retain Warden Hill, thus ignoring ig-noring the recommendation of the special committee. Last Sunday, a downtown paper reported that Adrian Pembroke a member "of the board of corrections said that prison morale was much higher under Warden Hill than under previous wardens. Then why all the escapes? Why do we hear that the educational ed-ucational program for inmates has all but been discarded, that prison discipline is poor, that dirty conditions prevail? Although Al-though it has not been publicized, the statement has been made on reasonably good authority that the recent discharge of farm superintendent Robert Devine, along with three guards, was unwarranted, since Mr. Devine had received permission per-mission from Warden Hill himself to take prisoners State Fair. The point is, however, that whatever the facts are, the pub.'V should know them- Decisions should be made for the best good of the prison and the public. Citizens should demand de-mand the full story of state prison conditions. |