PUNISHING CONVICTS
^Ridicule Is Best," Says Warden KEW YOBK, May 0. Warden Fred Hnnt, Of the dreadeil ,/auite gaol at Oklahoma, has hit on a .icw way of disciplining convicts ahd ^reventing crime. He compels his worst prisonfers — blllers, bank robbers, and gangsters — to sit on benches iii tho exerCiSC yaird ivearing "Mother Hubbard" dresses with silk "panties.,# Warden Hunt says "Eidicule is the best punishmentj it's liko standing a . dlild in the corner with a dunce 's cap. ' ' Convicts breaking gaol or guilty of bi'utalily AYardeil Hunt forccs to wear aotlilng but WOmOn^ clotlies. His methods provoked Df. Davbl Rotham, director of ihe Chicago Psychiatric Institute, to criticise tlie ivarden's plan as "meutalJy unhealthy," but Hunt replied:— "A toltn as noted for gangsters us Cliicago has no business eriticisiiig anybody,"
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 123, 10 June 1937, Page 7
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