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HAD TREATMENTMiss Knte Barnard Piles ReportMaking Herlons Charges Against Kansas Prison.That the law of Kansas prohibiting inhuman punishment of -prisoners in the penitentiary is being flagrantly violated and that Oklahoma prisoners are being subjected to the moBt hideous treatment, is the charge made In her annual report to the governor by Miss Kate Barnard, state commissioner of charities and corrections.She found a “mining hell inside the' prison gates,” men worked to the limit of endurance and the horrifying paralysatlon of prisoners in the “hall of punishments.” She faced the anathemas of the prison guards atld talked in private against the rules to prisoners, and they told her stories of cruelty that made herblood chill.Miss Barnard advocates the immediate discontinuance of the contract with the state of Kansas for the keeping of state convicts and advises that the legislature make a contract with congress for the keeping of convicts at the Untied States penitentiary at Leavenworth, ofwhich institution she speaks in heartiest praise.The remainder of the report includes examinations and criticisms of the county and municipal jails of Oklahoma, insane asylums, orphan homes, deaf and bltnd schools, receiving homes and dther sociological matters investigated the lust year.
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New State Tribune
Muskogee, Oklahoma, US
Thu, Dec 17, 1908
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