YO Journal of the Mitchell Society [^January 



the strongest motives that will keep the men in Class I is the 

 fact that confidence has been placed in them and they are trust- 

 ed. It might be well at this point to state that any community 

 'that undertakes the working of convicts along the lines I am 

 outlining must make it a point that " honor men " must he 

 "honor men" in every sense of the word. There must be no 

 guards of any sort. They must be housed, treated, worked, and 

 fed similarly as in a military camp or perhaps in a railroad con- 

 struction camp; differing from the latter, however, inasmuch 

 as there would have to be certain rules and regulations similar to 

 a military camp that the men. must live up to ; such as, retiring 

 and getting up at certain specific times, being regular at meals, 

 and other regulations that would be laid down by the Warden 

 or Superintendent of the convicts. It is in this way that the 

 convict realizes to the fullest extent the confidence that the 

 State is placing in him and is believing that he will respect 

 this confidence and pay his just debt by serving out his sentence. 



SECOND method OF ORGANIZATION 



In this second method of organization where it is necessary to 

 have the convicts guarded, the organization is somewhat differ- 

 ent than in the first. In the first place we have two classes of 

 convicts, one of which (Class III) are the men that have shown 

 for the time being at best that they cannot be trusted in any 

 way and have to be worked in stripes under armed guards and 

 have to be chained at night. 



.Class II also has to be worked under guards, but it will be 

 found that in some instances, as will be noted later, it will not 

 be necessary that these guards carry exposed firearms. The men. 

 of Class II can be divided into two groups. Those of Group 1 

 would be considered men who are on probation before being 

 transferred to Class I; and, while they are still worked under 

 guards, it will not be necessary for these guards to carry exposed 

 firearms. Group 2 would be worked under guards carrying 

 exposed firearms but without chains. At night all the men of 

 Class II would be in camp under armed guards. Those of 

 group 1 would not be on a chain while those of group 2 would 

 be. These men of Class II would wear some distinctive uni- 



