Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 287, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 December 1912 — DENOUNCES JAIL SYSTEM AS BRUTAL [ARTICLE]

DENOUNCES JAIL SYSTEM AS BRUTAL

Amos Butler Favors State Penal Farm and Says Jails Are Worse Than ('auditions in Congo. Denouncing the results of the Indiana jail system as being worse than the horrors and atrocities of the Con go, Amos W. Butler, secretary of tin board of state charities, made a plea for a state penal farm, in an address last week at a membership meeting of the commercial club in Indianapolis. Judge James A. Collins, of the Indianapolis police court, added Ills eondemnation of the jail -system by declaring that €hb state of Indiana does more for its hogs at its public institutions than it does for “the unfortunate and disease ridden offender who is made in His image.” Air. Butler said that last year 36,380 men, women, boys and girls were admitted to Indiana jails, 15,000 of whom served sentences or laid out fines. There they lived in idleness at the expense of the tax payer. They learned vice, immorality and crime. They became educated in criminal ways, and degenerated both physically and morally.