ALASKA CONVICTS LABOR Work Oat Fines Twice as Fast on Road Jobs.
JUNEAU, Alaska, Dec. 10. OP)— Acting upon the federal government plan of assigning voluntary prison labor to work on roads, Marshal Albert White today started trying: the experiment for the first time on the first Alaska division with federal prisoners here.
The prisoners will be allowed $4 a day if they work instead of the $2 allowed for staying- in prison for fines which they must serve. White
informed his deputies that other sections of the territory would do the same if United States commissioners agree.
The work will be done on trails for which no appropriations are available.
The plan was first suggested by Attorney General Mitchell to Governor George Parks as a new federal proposition. White has taken the plan up with the department of justice and if satisfactory will make it effective throughout the territory.