Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 August 1896 — Affairs of The Prison North. [ARTICLE]

Affairs of The Prison North.

Charley Harley, warden of the Indiana prison north, has turned over $25,000 to the auditor of state for the quarter of the year. At this rate the SIOO,OOO appropriated by the legislature will have been covered into the stat^ treasury by the net earnings of the prison, and it will have proved itself self-sustaining. Mr. Harley says that the prison is over crowded, having over 900 prisoners and only 720 cells. This necessitates placing two prisoners in one ceil in many

cases, a practice generally condemned in prison methods. Mr. Harley will ask the legislature to give the prison a larger appropriation for repairs and extension**. He wants authority to institute three classes, so that the indiviuai, by good conduct, may earn a parole, sis of the first class, or be degraded to the third class,, with coarser food served in the cells. All prisoners under his system would be assigned to the second grade on entrance tc the prison.