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BAD TREATMENTaoaMiss 1C nt e Ilnmnrd Files ReportMaking Herlons Charges Against Kansas Prison.That the law of Kansas prohibiting inhuman punishment of prison- n era in the penitentiary is being flagrantly violated and that Oklahoma prisoners are being subjected to the most hideous treatment, la the charge made In her annual report (j to the governor by Miss Kate Bar- a nard, state commissioner of charities and corrections.She found a “mining hell inside 1( the' prison gates, men worked to the limit of endurance and the horrifying paraiyzatlon of prisoners in the “hall of punishments/' She faced the anathemas of the prison tl guards arid talked in private against Hi 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 United States penitentiary at Leavenworth, of * which 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 blind schools, re-c elving homes and dther sociological matters investigated the last year. 1gtisantlitsntl Triltu f
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New State Tribune
Muskogee, Oklahoma, US
Thu, Dec 17, 1908
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Canton S.
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