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1 The Prison Labor Problem in Georgia: A Survey by the Prison Industries Reorganization Administration I (1937)

handle is hein.agopinions/plpgs0001 and id is 1 raw text is: NOVEMBER 2!, 1937. THE PRESIDENT THE WHITE HOUSE WASH INGTON, D. C. MR. PRESIDENT: WE TRANSMIT HEREWITH OUR REPORT ON THE EMPLOYMENT OF PRISONERS AND ALLIED PRISON ACTIVITIES IN GEOPGIA, THE TPELFTH SUCH STATE SURVEY WHICH WE HAVE COMPLETED. IN SOME RESPECTS WE CONSIDER THIS PEPORT ONF OF THE MOST IMPORTANT WE HAVE UNDER- TAKEN. THIS IS THE FIRST TIME OER SERVICES HAVE BEEN REQUESTED BY A STATE WHERE MOST OF THF FRISONERS ARE H'>USED IN AND WORK FROM ROAD CAMPS. AS IS WFLL KN-) N, SOME ASPECTS OF THAT SYSTEM HAVE BErN THE SUBJECT OF MUCH PJEL IC ITY AND UNFAVORABLE CR ITICISM. THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT ALRFADY HAS AN EXTENSIVE INTEREST IN THE SITUATION THROUKGH THE FRECT ION dY THE PUSLIC WORKS ADMINISTRA- TION OF A STATE PRISON AT FEIDSVILLE, TO ACCOMMODATE SOME 2,000 INMATES. WE WISH TO EXPRESS OUR GRATIFICATION AT THE LIBERAL AND PROGRESSIVE ATTITUDE TAKEN BY GOVERNOR E. D. RIVERS, BY THE PRISON COMMISS ION, BY THE MEMBERS OF THE SPECIAL JOINT COM- MITTEE AND THE REGULAR PENAL COMMITTEES OF THE GEORGIA LEGIS- LATURE IN UNDERTAKING TO MCDERNIZE THE PENAL SYSTEM. LEGIS- LATION NOW BEING DRAFTED UNDER THE GUIDANCE OF THE COMMITTEES FOR INTFODUCT ION AT THE APPROACHING SPECIAL SESSION OF THE LEGISLAYU4E WILL EMBODY SOME OF THE BASIC RECCMMENDATIONS OFFERED IN THIS REPORT AND WILL OPEN THrE WAY FOR OTHFfS TO BE CONSIDERED AT THE NEXT REGULAR SESSION. IT IS A SOURCE OF DEEP SATISFACT ION TO PECORD THE EXPRESS- ED INTENTICN OF THE PRESENT STATE ADMINISTRATIIN TO ELIMINATE THE CHAIN-GANG CAMtPS ENTIFFLY, TO DEVELOP A NUMBER CF STATE-USE INDUSTRIAL PROJECTS AT REII°SVILLE, TO INTRODUCE A SYSTEM OF CLASSIFICATION FOR PRISONERS, TO REORGANIZE AND STRENGTHEN THE PROBATI'N AND PAROLE SrRVICES OF THE STATE, AND TO PROVIDE BETTER .ED ICAL CARE AND EDUCATIONAL FACILITIES FOR THE PENAL POPULAT I N. WE FEEL THAT THESE STEPS ARE ALL HIGHLY IMPORTANT AND THAT THEY WILL GO FAR TOWARDS ESTARL ISH ING A YELL-ROUNL ED PRISON SYSTEM BASED ON STATE-USE EM LOYMENT ArD PROPERLY RE- LATED TO THE ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS BOTH OF THE PRISON POPULATION AND OF THE STATE.