Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 246, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 February 1930 — Page 13

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THE SCRIPPS-HOWARD Newspapers indulge in no maudlin sentiment about the criminal. They neither glorify his deeds, nor awaken misplaced sympathy for him, through sensational journalism. But they also believe that the State’s concern with a criminal extends far beyond conviction. That the criminal is entitled to fair prison treatment, just as he is entitled to a fair trial. And that over-crowding, graft, and cruelty are too barbarous to remain within the code of any civilized State.

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So when the editor of a Southern SCRIPPS-HOWARD Newspaper began to hear, mainly through smuggled letters, of particularly bad conditions in the State prison ... his paper urged an investigation. It was made. But it resulted in a complete whitewash for the warden and the prison board! Again the Scripps-Howard paper took up the cause. Another investigation was made. Another report was published, Finally, under the pressure of public opinion, the Board of Welfare took decisive action. And the Governor secured the approval

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of the State Legislature for a new and modern penitentiary costing three Several SCRIPPS-HOWARD Newspapers are still urging reforms in the system that produced three deadly prison riots in one month . And many other SCRIPPS-HOWARD Newspapers are helping to prevent prison abuses . . . to protect people from the danger of wholesale escapes...to keep the conscience of the good citizen clear, and his pride in his State unhurt by medieval penal methods.

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