CAOL FOR ANARCHISTS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 6, 8 January 1915, Page 4

CAOL FOR ANARCHISTS.

There is now under construction in New York a prison building especially designed for the detention of anarchists, Independent Workmen of the World agitators, and other lawbreakers who have defied all effort to restrain them in existing city gaols. Prisoners of this class have proved amongst the most difficult to control, and there have been several prison uprisings beaded by anarchists and I.W.W. convicts that have given the authorities much trouble and concern. The new gaol, now being built on Biker's Islnnd, will have separate cells for eighty prisoners, all of whom will be drafted from other city institutions, because of their propensity for stirring up trouble amongst their companions. For the worst of the trouhlf-makers there will be absolutly sound-proof cells. Each cell will be 8 by 12 feet, and will be equipped with cot, washstand, and other facilities. Practically the entire prison will be constructed by convict labour, under the supervision of experts. This is one of a number of innovations introduced by Miss Katherine B. Davies, who, as Commissioner of Corrections, has control of the penal and reform institutions of New York City.