For the professional bootlegger and manipulator you would not need to increase these penitentiariesvery few of them are convicted. it is invariably the small and unfortunate fellow who has no means of securing expensive lawyers. . Mr. Chairman and gentlemen. by increasing the border patrol and Coast Guard Service. prohibition inspectors. agents. and snoopers and increasing the number of judges in every section of the country and by giving judicial powers to commissioners or by approving additional expenditures for jails and penitentiaries you will still not be able to house all those sentenced or convicted without forcing them to sleep four in a cell made for one. in hallways as well as in basements. Mr. Chairman. within the last few weeks I have read several reports where the State and county and city officials have refused to accept in their jails and workhouses any more Federal prisoners and the reasons they assign are that they are overcrowded and that they can not find additional room.
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Generalization about small and unfortunate people being the only ones convicted.