Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 53, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 October 1911 — PREFER WORK TO ‘SOLITARY’ [ARTICLE]

PREFER WORK TO ‘SOLITARY’

Mfirion Prisoners Hear Ultimatum from Grant County Sheriff. Marion, Ind, Oct. 6.—On the advice of the county commissioners, Sheriff Tony George o-f Grant county hereafter will place in solitary confinement those prisoners at the county Jail who refuse to work with the “chain gang.” Five prisoners who were taken from their cells to do work for the county told Steve Golding, superintendent of the “chain gang,” they would not work and persistently refused. They were returned to the jail and Sheriff George took up the matter with the commissioners. The sheriff later told the men they could either go to work or go into solitary confinement. They went to work. There are now forty-eight persons confined in the county jail, including one woman