Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 99, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 March 1915 — PENAL FARM NEARLY DONE. [ARTICLE]

PENAL FARM NEARLY DONE.

Will Be Able to Receive Prisoners in a Short Time. Greencastle, Ind., March 16.—-The trustees of the Indiana state penal farm are expecting many prisoners to be sent to the farm from the criminal ccyiirt of Judge Cqllins of Indianapolis, who has been one of the Indiana judges to favor the establishing of such a farm for prisoners than any other judge in the state, and it is thought he will send several hundred prisoners here in the course of a year. Many men who are now going to the reformatory and state prisons will get off, it is thought, with penal farm sentences after the farm is ready to receive prisoners. The long dormitory is nearing completion, as is the dining room, which will accommodate at least 200 men at one time. The-contract has been let for 200 cots. Some of the men who are now on the farm as prisoners have asked that they be retained as guards when the farm js put in operation and their time expires. These men will be given the first chance at the guard positions, and because their conduct on the farm has been such that the trustees believe they deserve as good a start in their new life as can- be given them.