Texas Week, Volume 1, Number 3, August 24, 1946 Page: 26
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iflliare training in nine professions and
trades, have recreation facilities similar
to the Huntsville unit's and, on the basis
of good behavior, may attend and par-
ticipate in dramatic and other programs
at The Walls.
Religious services are held regularly
at both places and group meetings have
been arranged whereby prisoners with
common interests may gather to "blow
,off steam." Husband and wife convicts
who have broken no prison rules may
visit each other only once a month on
Sunday unchaperoned.
Farms are Contrast
And this is as far as the visitor can
go. He doesn't see the drab wall-less
farms where the repeaters and worst
criminal types are interned. Typical
is Wynne Farm, near Huntsville, where
only 43 trusties out of 430 prisoners (see
blackboard picture) get outside their
dirty, dark cages and halls into the
sunshine. These few trusties work the
1,913 acres of farmland around which
only a barbed wire fence connects with
an open gate (see picture).
For the repeater, The Walls Inmate
Cartoonist Sloan's drawing (see picture)
has significance.
The only evidence of the rehabilitation
program at Wynne Farm is a 12-foot
chicken wire which is being put up in
the yard to enclose the 387-non-trusties
while they absorb much-needed sunshine.
These pallid men, according to the heav-
ily armed guards, do no work at all.
"They wouldn't work in civilian life and
they burn themselves with lye and other-
wise mutilate themselves if we try to
make them work here." In answer to
a Texas Week question as to the good
points of the Minitra program, one of
the guards said "only the electric chair
can cure these criminals." Three other
guards nodded assent.26 TEXAS WEEK
24 AUGUST 46
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