Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 January 1914 — OHIO GOVERNOR WINS FIGHT [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

OHIO GOVERNOR WINS FIGHT

Buckeye State Executive Succeeds in Establishing prison Farm in Commonwealth. Columbus, O. —Due to the efforts of Governor Cox, Ohio is to have a prison farm similar to the one proposed for Milwaukee county. The governor does not believe in the present prison system in that he thinks it does not give an incarcerated person a chance to become a better man. He says there is no criminal class. The so-called criminal, he says, is only a poor unfortunate who has fallen into the wrong course of life. “We find that the farm is absolutely necessary in saving the man who has

done wrong and who goes to prison,” said the governor. “Man needs sunshine and fresh air, just as a plant does. “Ohio’s new penitentiary is going to be operated along the lines of scientific penology. We intend tq operate It on a business basis, but, above all, we are going to make men, And not only shall we have those who are sent to It, but we are going to make an intelligent effort to find out why men commit ci imea.‘ “We irtend to try to learn the causes that lead men into the wrong course at *1 if we can learn these causes, seciety can begin the work of removing the causes.”

Governor Cox.