UNITED STATES PRISONS PACKED.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIX, Issue 5339, 15 October 1928, Page 2

UNITED STATES PRISONS PACKED.

PROHIBITION RESPONSIBLE. We are qfton told that, prohibition empties pri's.onfe. Here are a few examples of how it does the reverse The “Chicago Tribune” reports tnat “Warden E. J. Fogarty called attention o,n September 27 to the fact that the county gaol is again overcrowded, having 1135 inmates in an institution built for n;qt more than 500.” Thq “World,” New York, quotes the General Secretary of the Lord’s Day Alliance, America- as spying : “Do you know that our prisons, now conjtain more criminals than at lapy time 'in our natiqnJ’s history ?” MORE GAQLS NEEDED. In laying the foundation qtonel of a new gaol, the chairman, at. the gathering, Mr A. J. Cermak, president of the County Board, said :— “If the; Prohibition League had not converted part of the peqple to the belief that prohibition would do away with the- need for penal institutions, I do not believe we would be gathered to lay this corner-'sjtone. Tqo many Americans believed their fall J e projpaganda. You have seen the) result: Rum-running, bootlegging, drunken automobile drivers, murder, and the need for more gaols, I could no.t help but meation this cojndition, because this building, for whu'cih we are laying the corner-stone, is. a concrete example of the utter neoeshity of bringing back persqnal liberty in America.”*