April 16, 1931
Also Requests Radios to Hear Amos 'n' Andy and Time To Visit Wives
A switchboard would have to be installed in county jail and a telephone placed in every cell if the requests of friends and relatives of prisoners were complied wlth, according to Sheriff Tom Armstrong.
Armstrong said persons call the jail many times and ask, to be connected with some prisoner. They
seem to think there is a telephone in each cell, he said.
"An extra crew of jailers would have to be kept on duty day and night to take prisoners between
their cells and the telephone if we complied with all those requests," the sheriff said.
County jailers say prisoners are often indignant because they are not offered all the conveniences of
home.
They ask for-magazines to read, fans for their cells in the summer, ice water, radio music, feather matresses and time off to go home and visit their wives, Jas. Lowenstein., chief jailer, says'
"They want radios in their cells to hear Amos 'n' Andy" Lowenstein said.
"They get mad when we don't do those things. They seem to think we are the cause of them being in
jail and make demands for comfort instead of taking a jail sentence as punishment."
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