CONVICTS' SHACKLES ABOLISHED
CHAIN GANGS ENDED IN GEORGIA The’ “ chain gang,” an institution long associated with Georgia in film and story, was officially abolished when Governor Rivers signed a Bill modernising; the State's penal arrangements (states the United States correspondent of the ‘Daily Telegraph’). Under the new law public works camps are . substituted for the system of putting chained prisoners to work on the roads and in quarries. Shackles, ’ whipping, and the “ sweat box”—a box resembling a telephone booth used for close confinement as a punishment—all become things of the past. The reforms include classification and segregation of prisoners, plans for their rehabilitation through educational (and vocational training, and the employment of an adequate staff to make physical and mental examinations of prisoners. Some prisoners in future will be employed in industries established by the .State. Others will be employed in public works. Incorrigibles will be sent to stone quarries; but even the latter will no longer he chained together. ,
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Evening Star, Issue 22920, 30 March 1938, Page 7
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160CONVICTS' SHACKLES ABOLISHED Evening Star, Issue 22920, 30 March 1938, Page 7
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