The Times from San Mateo, California • Page 16

'10-SANMATEO TIMES THURSDAY, MAY 19, 194 Congress May Close Alcatraz, Too Expensive WASHINGTON. Has Alcatraz outlived Its usefulness? Fewer prisoners than ever before are now being held in the escape-proof federal prison in San Francisco bay, and it's very expensive to operat $8 a day to maintain each desperate guest. In other federal prisons the "bean money" Is only $3. But the main consideration is the restraining effect of Alcatraz on the inmates of other jails and on men outside who might be plotting a great crime and yet decide it because of their dread of "The Committee Studies Plan The issue is now being pondered by the house judiciary committee. James V.

Bennett, director of the United States bureau of prisons, has made no firm recommendation. He has only pointed out that one or more federal prisons must be closed to keep within the proposed budget, that operation costs at Alcatraz are excessively high, but that ihfi psychological factor behind Alcatraz is ths big question-mark. Abandonment of Alcatraz wouldn't be a total saving in any case. The federal government still would have to establish in one of its 25 other prisons a "maximum security block" where incorrigiblt prisoners could be kept safely and apart from other prisoners for whom there is some hope of rehabilitation. All large penal institutions have such dungeons called by criminals "Klondikes," "Siberias," "solitary" oi' "deadlock." May Become Bolder Alcatraz was established in 1934, when the government was at the of its battle against kidnapers, rackatccrs, bank robbers and imperious gangs.

Hosts ot the underworld wore slaii. or imprisoned. By Edgar Hoover, director of the federal bureau of investigation, was able to say that not one nationally organized gang was left. What part did Alcatraz play in HIP victory? Will criminals become bolder if tliorc is no more Alcatraz? No one really knows. That's why congress intends to do a lot of i i boforc it lets Alcatraz go.

As to whether Alcatraz, or any olhor prison, deters criminals, Di- rrclor Bennett has only two broad convictions: (1) That they do not rleler those who commit accidental crime or crimes of passion, psy- oopaths or alcoholics; (2) That they do dclor many persons who are tempted to do such things as steal or file fraudulent tax returns. "But whether it deters the average criminal," says Bennett, "the prison system is the only system we know." Fear Alcatraz Of one thing he is sure: That all hardened criminals live in mortal fear of winding up on Alcatraz. Tic permits no brutality against in- mntes there but prisoners are allowed the minimum of privileges, and the discipline is more severe a in any other American institution. Those who enter it have no hope of delivery or parole. No one has ever escaped, although two men once did dive into the cold, swift currents that sweep the rock.

They are believed to have drowned. No one has ever been paroled direct from Alcatraz. Men can, however, work their way back to some other (Acme Tflepholot Albert Charles Dubiski (above), 33, of Pittsfield, and Venice, was jailed In Albany, N. while authorities check his story that he has seven wives. He stated that he has one each in Corsicana, Plainview, Los Angeles, Tuscon, Detroit, St.

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prison by years of good behavior. Alcatraz now has 228 prisoners --nearly all of whom Bennett knows personally. This is 26 per cent fewer than the peak year, 1938. The total population of all federal prisons is now about the same as in that year, a little more than 17,000. Apparently there is now a smaller proportion of the hardened, intractable, desperate type who need the Alcatraz treatment.

No Water, Or Soil The chief reasons Alcatraz is so costly are that it requires one custodian to every two prisoners (instead of one to five as in other prisons) and that there is no water on the island. All water has to be transported by barge from the mainland. Even soil has to be shipped to the Rock if a warden decides to raise a few flowers or vege tables. Alcatraz cost $3.000,000, and it would cost to replace it. No other government agency wants it, says Bennett, so if abandoned it would soon deteriorate in the briny air.

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