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LASH NOT TO BE USED ON WOMEN CONVICTj Atlanta. Ga.. Jan. 14.—The whlpplr of women prisoners at the city stoc! | ade has been stopped. Orders to th: effect have been Issued to Superlntei dent T. B. Lanford by ^he1 prison con mlttee of the city council.It was established definitely d the semi-hearing by the prison con mlttee that both,the state law an the set of regulations drawn In 191 by a Blmilar body to govern the stocl ade permitted whipping without re gard to color or sex.Despite this, no white women eve; had been lashed. It was declared to; Warden Tom Lanford. Negro womei were punished In the so-called buck Ing chair” only when all other dlscip Unary means had failed, it was said.Coincident with the development alt; to whipping at the city stockade com^s the announcement from J. L. Kelley, acting chairman of the state board of public works that the board would -be called to meet In Atlanta in tjie near future to consider not only the whipping of prisoners In city stockades, bnt also In the convict camps throughout the state of Georgia.
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Thomasville Daily Times Enterprise
Thomasville, Georgia, US
Wed, Jan 14, 1920
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