Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 February 1917 — Common Sense Penal Treatment [ARTICLE]

Common Sense Penal Treatment

Davton, O- Used to treat its workhouse prisoners as most other cities treat them—that is, put them in a celt and let them stay there in idleness, eating poor food at the expense of the city until their terms had expired. Under the commission the workhouse has been made clean and all the prisoners given work in the open air. The woman prisoners have been set to work making towels and bed clothing. Male prisoners are taken outdoors and used for city work as day laborers. The result is that the city gets the benefit Of the prisoners’ work and the prisoner gets the moraf and'physical advantage of outdoor exercise. —Exchange.