Fattening Up In Jail

FATTENING UP IN JAIL.

Does a sojourn in the county jail fatten up a prisoner? That is the question the county commissioners will answer for themselves by actual tests, says a Toledo dispatch. When complaints were made by prisoners of poor food Sheriff Newton denied them and pointed to the prisoners who came to the jail sickly, but left fat and healthy. The commissioners have ordered scales for the jail and every time a prisoner comes in for a stay of any length of time his weight will be taken. When he leaves after partaking of the prison fare his weight will again be taken to see if he has not "fattened up."