Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 January 1901 — Shed All Their Stripes. [ARTICLE]

Shed All Their Stripes.

For the first time since a prison was locatedin Jeffersonville, not a prisoner in the reformatory is now wearing the stripes, the uniform of the lowest grades. When the old Prison Sooth was transformed into the Indiana Reformatory three grades of standing were established, the first designated by a grey suit, hardly distinguishable from citizen’s clothing; the second, a check suit without repulsive appearance, and the third, black and white stripes. None but those refusing to obey prison rules have been attired in stripes for a long time. Oa Christmas day there were fifty-four men who had on zebra-like clothing, and Superintendent Rert decided to give them a Christmas ,gift in shape of the higher grades of clothing He gave them a straight tip however, that the first man that violated the ruLs would get back his stripes and that they stay stripes to the end of their sentences.