Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 239, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 October 1919 — CROOKS WILL FLOCK TO MONTICELLO—NO JAIL THERE. [ARTICLE]

CROOKS WILL FLOCK TO MONTICELLO—NO JAIL THERE.

Monticello, - Oct. I.—After condemnation by grand juries, the state boaffT of “ and “the state board of health, the present county jail has continued to be used for housing prisoners, but- this morning drastic action was taken by Dr. W. H. Greist, commissioner of the White county board of health, in which he ordered Sheriff Ben Price, Jr., not to place prisoners in the jail in the future. The order issued is as follows: October 1, 1919. Ben Price, Jr., Sheriff White County, Ind., Monticello, Ind., Dear Sir: -y Because of the notoriously bad insanitation of the White county jail, its lack of proper ventilation, its defective and scandalously dangerous heatiijg system which endangers the lives, of inmates and makes it practically impossible for their escape even with the preferred assistance of the sheriff in case of fire, and the inadequacy of said heating system to heat the cells In cold weather, and because of the lack of light and sunshine so essential to been annually condemned by oui grand juries for the last twenty years, ? and justly so, and because the state board of changes has also condemned said jail some years since and urgently recommended its being razed, and because the state board of health also condemned said bastile some years since—because of these incontrovertible facts and 'the. urgency of the crying need for a betterment of things along this line, therefore — It is hereby ordered by the White county board of health that you place no more prisoners within the walls of the present White county jail, and said jail is hereby condemned as worthy immediately of being torn down. ' Witness our hand and seal of office this October Ist, 1919. The White County Board of Health, Per H. W. Greist, --j— Commissioner.