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simply to locate the institution in the country, but to have a 

 great estate as a basis for unlimited useful employment, and 

 also as a means of controlling and shaping a large environment. 

 The Correction Farm is part of a great tract of nearly two thou- 

 sand acres, or more than three square miles, on which are the 

 Tuberculosis group, the Almshouse group, and also an extensive 

 municipal cemetery to be graded and developed by prison labor. 

 The area is so large and diversified that the Almshouse group is 

 a mile and a half from the Correction group, and two hundred 

 feet higher. Each of the four divisions is distinct on its own 

 five hundred acres, yet out on the broad fields and in the light, 

 airy shops of the Correction buildings every prisoner can be 

 used at his best in the raising of food and the making of all 

 those things which will add to the life and comfort of them- 

 selves and the other unfortunates who are the residents of the 

 Farms. 



A visiting judge said to me, "It is so fine out here, I should 

 be afraid some of these prisoners would want to stay." Near 

 by a group of men were shoveling dirt into a grading wagon. I 

 said to him: "Judge, you see those men at work; they are 

 drinking an abundance of pure water, they eat heartily, they 

 sleep well. They say to themselves, 'This is not "made work," 

 this is real, genuine work. Free men right over there are getting 

 a dollar and a half a day for doing this.' The old prison cell, 

 the food, the confinement of their labor, tended to depress them 

 and to make them hopeless. This treatment quickly brings thorn 

 to themselves and arouses the normal man. There is a psycholog- 

 ical element, which you have not thought of and which we did 

 not fully foresee, which makes these men more anxious to go 

 back and again take their places in society and industry. At 

 the expiration of their sentences they go out without the prison 

 pallor, stronger in the face of temptation, and ready at once to 

 do a full day's work." 



For the friendless prisoners when released a Brotherhood 

 Home Club grew up in the city, largely through the efforts and 

 support of the men themselves. The purpose of the Brotherhood 

 is to find them employment and to provide for them a comfortable 

 place in which to live until their first pay da} 7 ". 



That the colony movement is the outgrowth of a common feel- 



