Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 October 1900 — CHARGES CONCERN SING SING. [ARTICLE]

CHARGES CONCERN SING SING.

investigation Said to Ilnvs $ hovn Crook, cuness In the Prison. New Tors. Oct. 11. —A* the result dt an inveitigation Slijg Sing prison, which has been abletly carried oji for some titie by a df the Prison Association of Xew T’otk a report Will - soon he submitted to the association. in which charges of a , most serious and sensational character will he made against certain officials of the prison. Among the charges made and which the committee is prepared to substantiate are many affecting the disposition of prison-made goods, the maltreatment of certain prisoners and the favoritism shown to others. It is charged that articles which are manufactured 1 by contract labor and Intended for use only in public institutions in tills state have been sold to private. Individuals in New York and New .Terser. It is charged, too. that.convicts have lieen brutally beaten by keepers ami that in one Instance a man was' beaten and then kicked off the fourth gallery to the cement floor forty-five feet below, receiving Injuries which resulted In his death -within a short time. Blackmail, it is alleged. Is practiced by certain persons in the prison. “Soft snaps” in the way of work are gifen tn some convicts for just as long as they are willing to pay the price demanded.