Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 268, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 March 1931 — Page 32

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INDETERMINATE TERMS BLAMED FOR PEN RIOTS Priest, Stateville Chaplain, Says Convict Revolts Not Aimed at Warden. I! 7 United Press JOLIET, 111., March 20.—The Rev. Eltjiua Weir. 83, Roman Catholic i haplain at, Statesville prison, where '.*>oo.ooo worth of property was detroyed by rioting prisoners, told the United Press he had feared for everßl years such a riot would occur. but said he did not blame prison authorities for it. Father Weir, a gray-haired, roundfaced. kindly man who has been 'haplam five years, recalled how he. Warden Henry C. Hill and deputy warden Frank Kness walked unarmed and unharmed among the rioters. He said it proved the convicts had not rebelled against them, but gainst the parole board, at which all their riotous shouts were directed. ‘ • • Blames Indeterminate Terms Besides the evils of overcrowding. the necessary evils attendant io application of the Illinois indeterminate sentence laws were responsible. for the riot,” said Mr. Weir. . "For several years the men in the ‘stir’ have objected to these laws and the manner in which they have been use." the priest, said. The expression “stir" was only one of many prison terms he used. "The necessity of the pardon and parole board defining how long a man shall serve under an indeterminate sentence gives rise to much of the trouble,” the chaplain explained. Urges Change in LawUnder this law, a man is sentenced to. serve one to ten, one to twenty, one year to life, or some other indeterminate period. His release depends partly upon his behavior. Although he is sentenced by a judge or jury, it becomes the ' duty eventually of the parole board to say whether he shall serve two or fifty years of "a one year to life" sentence’. "I have gone to Springfield myself several times to plead that changes be made in execution of this law and Warden Hill also has pleaded.for changes," Weir said. Hearings Only Once Yearly “One of the principal objections of the prisoners is that although all ten members of the board pass upon the parole applications, only three

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R.ev. Eligius Weir, above, Roman Catholic chaplain of the Illinois State penitentiary, walked unharmed among mutinous groups of convicts trying in vain to quiet them.

of them actually come here to hear the cases. "The men object also that where they formerly were given hearings every eleven ’months they now are allowed to appear before the board only once each year. “And when they do appear, they claim, .they are allowed only one or two minutes to present their cases. They say they arp v.crn at by the board members. Here the chaplain interjected an opinion of his own. "I know personally,” he said, ‘‘of at least twenty-five men in this penitentiary who were sent here for crimes they didn't commit.” Tine chaplain said there had been much rebellion since a law was passed in 1959 reducing the penalty from ten yeaYs to ‘‘one to life” for certain crimes. . There were,, he said, 647 prisoners who oelieved they should benefit by this law. although sentenced before it was passed. Os these men, whom he described as being "caught in the pocket,” only 131 actually benefited frorrt the new law, he said.

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