Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 221, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 September 1914 — Reconstructing Delinquents. [ARTICLE]

Reconstructing Delinquents.

Duluth is one American city that has learned to treat petty offenders with some degree of humanity and with the view to helping them, by punishment rather than to make them, worse. A work farm has been established, and there men who have been arrested for drunkenness and the numerous offenses to which reckless and unfortunate men are prone, are sent there to work in the fields or in a sawmill, and under the eyes of humane guards. There is every indication that the treatment is being appreciated and that the prisoners are being helped. It is to be hoped that the same plan may be successfully worked out for this city. On a larger scale, Cleveland is doing it with conspicuously good effect, and of still greater magnitude will be the new Ohio penitentiary, in Madison county, which is one of the great reforms of the present state administration. — Dayton News.