The bath room is located below the tailor shop in a two‐story building.
Here bathing operations are begun each Friday morning under the
supervision of a guard, who marches the prisoners to the bath room,
twenty‐eight at a time, there being accommodations for only twenty‐eight
men, and each is provided with an overhead shower bath of hot or cold
water.
As the guard marches in with the men the prisoners remain standing in
front of their shower until the attendant registers their numbers, and the
guard then stamps his cane twice on the floor to notify the prisoners to
begin bathing. The registered number slips are sent upstairs, where the
inmates’ clothing is kept in pigeon holes arranged along the walls of the
laundry, each pigeon hole being labeled with the prisoner’s register
number, and at the expiration of his bath is hastily sent downstairs and
placed on the small door leading to his stall. Each prisoner is given a
clean handkerchief and pair of socks.
When the men are through bathing and the guard again stamps twice on the
floor with his cane they step out of the bathing booths, and at the signal
the march back to the shop begins. It requires about fifteen minutes to
bathe twenty‐eight men.
Just in the rear of the tailor shop is a cobler, whose duties are to
repair the shoes of the inmates. All the shoes are bought, including the
discharged clothing worn by the inmates, when they are relieased from
prison.
[Prisoners at Chapel Service on Sunday]