PAROLES TO BE HEARD AS LEAVENWORTH IS OVERPOPULATED
Leavenworth, Kansas (JFK+50) On April 5, 1925, Associated Press reports "steps are underway...to relieve congestion at the Federal Penitentiary*" here in Leavenworth.
AP says that "the population (of the prison) is more than double that provided for in the original planning...24 years ago."
When Luther C. White, newly appointed superintendent of federal prisons, arrives Monday seven hundred applications for parole will be heard.
The current population of Leavenworth is 3,185, "the highest in the history of the institution." In 1918, the population was 1,600.
*Federal Correctional Institution at Leavenworth is a medium security federal prison located in northeastern Kansas. It is 25 miles northwest of Kansas City. Colonel Henry Leavenworth chose the original site for a new fort in 1827 which opened as a prison in 1903.
SOURCE
"Leavenworth Prison So Congested Board Will Take Up 700 Parole Pleas," The Evening Star, Washington, D.C., April 5, 1925, Chronicling America, Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/
