The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1878-12-20
PLACE OF BIRTH OF coxvrcrs.

ers, /.
PLACE or BIRTH or coxvrcrs.
Alabama, 2: Canada. q: Connecticu,
n; England. 10; France, 2; German,
~; Georgia, 4; Indiana, 267; ireland
Isp; Illinois. IS; Iowa, 8; Kentucky. ~
Louisiana, 2; Maine. g; Michigan. g
Massachusetts,, s; Missouri. g.: Missis
l..,,ppi. >: Maryland. 1; New York. 25
North Carolina. y; New Jersey. 1: New
liampshire, .; Ohio, 56; Pennsylvania
2i' South Carolina, 4 Scotland. Il: Ten
Inessee, 10; Texas, 4; Virginia, 22.
AGE AT TINE OF CONVICTION.
Twenty years and under, os: 20 70 25
years. Is1; rs to 80 years, 1873; 30 10 81
years. 90; 80 10 40 years. 45: 40 70 N
years, ~; 40 to 30 years. IS; 30 10 s.
years, ~: IS 10 60 years, 9: 81 to 65
years, (; " 10 IS years, j.
EDUCATIONAL GRADE.
Number who can read and write. asa
number who can read only, 73: number
who can neither read nor write. ITO.
SOCIAL HABITS.
Moderate drinkers, 2s2: intemner.te
|l36; temperate, 205.
SOCIAL RELATIONS.
Number single. 39S; number married
Ivy widowers, "a; divorced, 2.
GENERAL AND COMPARATIVE srATrs1rcs
Convicis received since December I5
1868, 2,670: discharged by expiration oil
sentence. sos pardoncd, 33i; died. %
discharged by mandate OF courts. 81
transferred TO House of Refuge. AZ: es-
:apcd. ~ total discharged since Decem- |
Der is, 1867. 2,04f. Expenses for the
fear ending October 81. 1873, $4,000. |
comparing the number OF pardons
.ranted with the number OF conyicts In
he prison during the gubernationsl /
erms Of the past rs years, Il is found
hat Governor Williams has psrdoned
70 greater number Of convicts in the
sme time than his predecessors. III
VII also be noted that most OF the con-
lets are comparatively young men. Ont
4 the C26 convicis now ia the prison
ne larger number of s % are upder Ak
cars OF are, and 421 sre under 80 wears
Z sg,. Four hundred aud eighteen out
me c2b nsed intoxicating liquors.
lve-eIghthe OF the convicts are unmsr-
ed, showing thsI there j. more crime
nong single than married men. III
HEALTH or Tas PRISON. a
The health Of the prison the past wear !;
- been remarkable. The wear has y
zen an unusually unhealthy one over I
e west and south. and one 81 which !.
alarial diseases have been pi piedominanfl y
~ singnlarlv fatal. Yet during the !
ar ending November I, there were
u seven deaths in the piison. two M !"
csc rom accident. and three from old y
rome diseases that were incursble. !.
ne general health Of he convicts during :, /"
G year was never better. IL as good. In N
y previous year Of the history OF the y:
stitution. The year before Warden =
'ward took charge Of the prison 70 y,
aths occurred in it. y
THE PRISON ovERcsowprr. ~
The prison Is overcrowded 10 decree Al
Y. but for the most perfect sanitary m
Icing and arrangements. could n,t lc,
] 70 breed disease. In point Of cell Ia
there are. for the SOS IA,
nvicts now confined there. cell rooms tr,
out 800. The balance are lodged in tn
'ridors. hospital and chapel. and these. an
result, are diverted from the uses clt
which they were intended bv the fol
te. With the number OF convicfs Gel
adily increasing, and likely 10 run "a w
~ 100 before the close Of the next fis- III,
year October 81. 1879 il becomes 4 a {
n important question "what is 10 be An
le with them ''IIow are they n SIR
provided for in comic rtable and :
name manner m To
DDiTTOSAL BUILDINGS AFv Srrprn ho
y are absolutely demanded and must ira
erected. building 10 contain 40 ~
40 cells would not more than meet 20
requirements Of the next few wears N.
" = a laincntabc fact that crime i ne'
easing rather than diminishing an.l hs'
nanity as we'll as the requirements ~ hio
demands that the state shall make ere
? provisions as Is necessary for The A.
per care and discipline. as well as ,he wa
lection OF health, OF those OF whom py
becomes the custodian as the adj h"'
'strator Of justice in the punishment Gus
rime. "A suitable building for this OF
pose could be erected at emf
COST OF FROM 10000 TO $4,000 WI VI.
Fided the work be done under the not
srintcndcncc Of the warden and as n
as possible. with the UNEMPLOYED |dar
= Of the prison. The brick could All 10,
nauc. the masonry and carpenterinr fro,
most of the other work on the build- Ipro
done BY the convicts themselves. ana Iof /
warden Howard Is practical brick the
er and brick mason aud bu;ldar Inca
STATE would by placing the superin- a
cncc 81 the work in his hand, save gen
c'f RON jobbing and unprincipled SON
ractors and rings. These are suv. ~ !