The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1875-03-09

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which should have been saved TO the state. It
will be borne in mind that all those expendl-
lures illegal and unnecessary as they Were)
were made at times when the prison was in debt,
and the qua, ds and employees in great need of
and begging for their salaries, the prison DelnS
almost always IN arrears with them; but their
appeals were unheeded by the warden ana d1-
The amount ofs2l 557 is sreported By Col shuler
to be the expenditures OF the repairs or tue
prison for 1874. 1t will not be forgotten that
he reports Sl7 GOO as being the amount usec In
succeeded in ascertaining how this very large
sum was expended in 1874, and, for want OF time,
did not attempt to ascertain that for 1913. The
officers of the prison, when examined on the
subject. spoke generally OF
IMPROVEMENTS IN THE wARDEN's HOUSE,
blacksmith shops. foundry, and the erection of
steam and washing apparatus, and repairs of
streets near tie prison. No new shops or build
ings have been erected in the prison. No ex
tensive repairs of any kind have been put on
any of the buildings, or any considerable ex-
penditure made on any one place about the
prison, and the way the books have been kept
it is IN possible TO iteHnize all the expenditures
but the committee viewed the places where the
improvements are said to have been made, and
think they should not have cost more than
s. o1O and more than half of those were for the
comforts, convenienceS and pleasure of the
warden and his family. The streets which were
it was not incumbent on the officers of the
prison to repair them. That in the
iiT1' the contractor "e and all others having
businesssat the prison and has been so ever
since the prison was erected, but this Is the first
time the warden has ever claimed credit for any
such repair. That at the rear OF the prison was
never used by them having business at the
cause Col. Shuler wanted the earth taken from
| ii TO fill pond of his which was near by. But
more than 500 in money, the labor having al
most all besn done by convicts and teams be-
longing to the state. Col Shuer's report for 1869
1 hundred
dollars of being self-SElStatn1ng shat year, when
tae average receipts for convict labor was forty
| four cents per day for each convict employed ON
the tract In 1873 and 1874 the receipts for con-
vict labor was sixty cents per day for each con-
the amounts received for convict labor in 1869
/ and 1873 and 1874 on the average number of CEN
ans un n ievor OF the last year. Yet In 1878 the
def cit in paging the expenses OF the prison was
to sl6,l9l Now lake the deficit for 1879, Sl6l9l,
add 10 that the greater amount. received in 1874,
for convict labor, si, 800, and again add 70 that
ture for the use OF the prison for that
as being the amount, according 10 Col. Sk ulers g
report. which the prison lacked OF being
self-sestainingGn 1874. On in other words, IL has
] the prison in 1873, thanit did in 1869. BRtthe
evidence shows that instead of the deficit in
ls54 being s6Isi It was really Sisig2, and ID in, IN,
over that of 1863 being about S6,5OO. II was actu-
ally more than s3azO0 These figures show enor-
NOUS miG1ses of the states money and pro-
perty and a most criminal abuse by the officers
OF the prisSa of the confidence EepUsed in them
by the state. Another tact presented by an ex-
animation OF Col. Shuler's annual report is
that they clearly show that the labor of the
convicts, aiken by him for his private purpo-
sest Is direct and
VERY GREAT LOSS TO THE STATE.
In 1859 the number of convicts working
for the contractors, excluding the ff-
teen women MT employed On contracts, was
ss1% per cent. Of the whole number of the con-
vlcts; in 1873, 1t was 70 per cent. of the whole
number: and in 1874 It was 81 per cent. of the
whole number, being ~ per cent. more en-
ploy ed in 1869 than in 1873, and So per cent more
than in 1874. That 81 per cent. of the eonviets
would be an average of at least six teen per day.
Making a total in dollars which the warden
has kept from the state by having Ihe convtc;s
employed for himself, instead of by
S300n. and q much larger amount in 1872.
AS n1atter of course IL is assumed in theSe cal