Newark Evening Star And Newark Advertiser

PENITENTIARY IN ESSEX APPROVED

Report, With Suggestions, Is Made to County Branch of State Charities Aid.

Excellent management prevails at the Essex county penitentiary, according to a full report made by Wilson Farrand, Walter Kidde and Clarence L. Stonaker to the Essex County Branch of the State Charities' Aid Association. Several improvements, however, are suggested.

"From the material standpoint," the report sets forth, "there is need for a new administration wing, to contain kitchens, dining-room and possibly an assembly-room for religious exercises and other gatherings.

Another desirable improvement would be the erection of another wing, devoted to the accommodation of prisoners.

"In the third place, we urge strongly the acquiring by the freeholders of the farm adjacent to the penitentiary grounds. This would not only give opportunity for the profitable employment of an even larger number of prisoners, but it would also provide room for other county institutions that may be needed in the more or less remote future.

"On the administrative side, we are emphatically of the opinion that the present plans and kind of work should be extended and made more efficient. There is need of a competent farmer and of a gardener to take charge of the prisoners engaged in this kind of work, and to instruct them as well as superintend."