Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 74, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 December 1909 — URGE FARM FOR INSANE PATIENTS [ARTICLE]

URGE FARM FOR INSANE PATIENTS

Plan Proposed hi Indiana For Relief of State Hospitals. OTHER REFORMS TO BE ASKED Secretary of State Board of Charities Will Include In Report a Number of Recommendations to Go to tha Next General Assembly—Law to Prevent the Incarceration of Woman In County Jails and Similar Institutions la to Be Advised. Indianapolis, Dec. 28. —Amos W. Butler, secretary of the board of state charities, will make a number of recommendations to the next general assembly In his annual report which Is being prepared now. These recommendations are: That sonie elastic provision be made for caring for the state’s insane so as to relieve the crowded conditions of the state hospitals. The plan proposed is to purchase a farm, or farms, near a state hospital, and to establish a colony thereon for the care of the milder patients. That the fee system in the county jails be abolished. That district workhouses be provided for the Incarceration of persons found guilty of infraction of the state laws when the offense is not sufficient to call for a prison sentence. That the state establish a central receiving station and school for dependent children, from which disposition of such children can be made. That the juvenile court law, which now applies to boys under sixteen and girls under seventeen, be extended to apply to both boys and girls up to eighteen years. That a law be enacted requiring judges to visit the penal and reformatory institutions. That a law be enacted which will prevent the incarceration of women In county jails and similar county Institutions. That tbe state provide some measure for deporting nonresident paupers.