Rocky Mount, Feb. 23—Conditions among the prisoners at State penal institutions were portrayed by Rev. William S. Shacklette, State prison chaplain, in an address before the Woman’s Auxiliary of the Church of the Good Shepherd at parish house of that church last night.
Rev. Mr. Shacklette, who is a member of the commission on Christian social service for the Episcopal dioceses of North Carolina, discussed in detail the program which the (line obscured) the individual churches to aid in putting across.
The speaker took up in detail the duties of the rector, the local committee, and the general commission in carrying out this program, which he outlined in detail. By way of definite suggestion, Rev. Mr. Shacklette urged that good reading matter be provided for county homes, institutions and jails, that aid be given the families of men who are in prison, that they be supplied clothes and food and a better environment created, that sympathetic help be given to discharged prisoners and those paroled from prison and reform schools and that assistance be accorded them in finding employment.
Rev. Mr. Shecklette [Shacklette?] deplored certain conditions which he declared he had found in the State prison. He declared that he knew several instances where children in their early teens had been sent to the penitentiary and minced no words in criticizing judges who had sent them there. “Hard-boiled methods” on the part of the pardon commissioner likewise came in for comment on the part of the speaker.
From the front page of The Concord Daily Tribune, Wednesday, Feb. 24, 1926
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