Belleville social survey . BIRDS EYE VIEW OF SECTION OF BELLEVILLE IN 1885,TAKF,N FROM COURT HOUSE. SAME VIEW, IN 1914, TAKEN FROM SAME LOCATION BELLEVILLE SOCIAL SURVEY 53 in the city lock-up. Some arrangement must be made whereby ourjails and lockups are neither places of imprisonment for debt norschools of crime. THE CITY AND THE COUNTY JAILS. As elsewhere inKansas, the city jail is more or less of a make-shift, designed for alock-up rather than for the incarceration of an inmate over a con-siderable length of time. It is small, badly ventilated and insuffi-ciently lighted. Surely so
Belleville social survey . BIRDS EYE VIEW OF SECTION OF BELLEVILLE IN 1885,TAKF,N FROM COURT HOUSE. SAME VIEW, IN 1914, TAKEN FROM SAME LOCATION BELLEVILLE SOCIAL SURVEY 53 in the city lock-up. Some arrangement must be made whereby ourjails and lockups are neither places of imprisonment for debt norschools of crime. THE CITY AND THE COUNTY JAILS. As elsewhere inKansas, the city jail is more or less of a make-shift, designed for alock-up rather than for the incarceration of an inmate over a con-siderable length of time. It is small, badly ventilated and insuffi-ciently lighted. Surely some arrangement might be made with thecounty for the common use of the county jail. The county jail is a substantial brick building two stories inheight, located in the court house square. The front part of thebuilding is the living quarters for the deputy sheriff, who is the jailwarden. The jail proper consists of two cell rooms of like construc-tion, one on the first and one on the second floor. The area of thecell rooms is 1152 square feet each. The walls are low, that is, aboutnine feet. There are
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