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every day.Those statements are made in affidavits to The Indianapolis Timesby a former inmate of the farm's dairy and one youth who worked 111 the kitchen of the institutionwhich, by legislative act, is for correction and rehabilitation of erring petty offenders of the state.I have helped cut milk for inmates. We get eighty gallons of milk a day from the rows and then we'd cut that, outside of,the officers’ milk, with one-half water and one-half milk. swears Chester Noblet. former inmate, who worked at thefarm dairy. / ; j•Cut* Milk Is ServedAdmission that cut milk is served the inmates is made by Harry W. Wissel, acting superintendent of the farm. with. During certain times of the year when the milk supply is • just a little low it sometimes is necessary to add a little water to1 the milk to supply a sufficient! amount for the entire population.”We get eighty gallon of milk a j day,” declares Noblet, and yet that amount of milk is said to be sufficient to serve twice that number of inmates and serve them whole milk.Sworn statements of other inmates tell of the weak watery fluid called milk” which was served tothem. - J v-’3 INoblet, in his affidavit, charges that he gave butter at the rate of two pounds a week to four guards,! in addition to the farm's officers who rated it, Harry H. Wissel, acting superintendent, and E. L. Ar-ment, assistant superintendent.Cream Every MorningHe further charges in his affidavit, I K()t a pint of cream each;morning and one gallon of milk when he was supposed to get but a quart. He slipped us smoking for the extra milk.” |The inmates, asserts Noblet’s affidavit, got butter once a week, on Sunday morning. We got from thirty to thirty-five pounds a day from milking about sixty cows.” |With from ten to twelve pounds of butter being given daily to thefarm's guards and officers, according to Noblet’s sworn statement, he | says, we turned over an average of twenty-five pounds daily to the! storeroom. I don't know what use that, was put to except when themnn trnf Knttn** ••
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Indianapolis Times
Indianapolis, Indiana, US
Mon, Jul 17, 1933
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Sullivan C.
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