Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1880-02-12
ate habits and lsl of professed temperate


ate habits and lsl Of professed temperate
habits.
The receipts of the Penitentiary las
year from convict labor, etc., were
sl72 ,36l OF. while the expenses were
$l76, ,077 Sc.
Visitors are charged an admission OF
% cents, and the amount received from
| this source last year was about $500,
| so one can see that q large number oil
visitors include this as one of the sights
of the city.
10 feed this large army of convlcts il
took So, 800 90 for provisions-24a
head of cattle; us hogs; 49, ,6Ol pounds
of eorned beef; 1,036 barrels of flour,
1854 bushels Of wheat s,l33 bushels OF
corn, l0,229 pounds of coffee. For the
use of those who have acquired the
habit of using tobacco 1876 pounds of
tobacco were required.
THE RULES,
for the dicipline and government of
the Penitentiary are most strictly OBJ
served. In book kept by the Warden
is entered a record of every infraction
of the published rules OF discipline with
the name of the guilty prisoner.
Upon the arrival of prisoner at the
Institution, the clerk enters his. name,
date of reception. and general descrip-
ton of person. He is then taken to
room, has his hair and whiskers cut,
given bath and then dressed in the
striped uniform of the prison. While
serving his term his behavior is reported
each day, and when discharged or par
dOned or escapes, the record is made on
the book in which he was first en-
rolled. The Penitentiary Physician
keeps what is called the "Hospital
Register" where the names of all pris-
oners sick, or complaining who require
medical treatment, with the disease of
each and his prescription therefore, Is
entered.
Each convict is furnished with a
Bible or Testament and attends divine
services In the prison chapel every Sum-
day. A large library for the use of the
convicts is under the charge of the
chaplain. A catalogue is furnished
each prisoner, and they are afforded OPP
pOrtunity to do quite an amount of
reading as the lights in the cells as we'll
in the corridors burn until O'Clock.
About 800 volumes are sent ont weekly
on orders, and about 400 are passed
around in general circulation-that is
if a man can read, book is placed
in his cell, whether one was ordered
or not. Every Friday the prisoners
wishing their books changed, lay them
on the foot of their beds. A pris-
oner can retain Il book two weeks.
Reading matter is in demand in about
the following order: Fiction, Maga-
zines, history and Biography, science
and religion. 1t will take too much
space in one letter to tell all the inter-
esting things about Ohio's great Peni-
tentiary and at some future day will
write more about it, and closing with
advice which Chaplain Burns gives In
the following:
Society will have to see to it that all
its youthful members are sent to school,
aud primary education is supplemented
by further training of brain or hand,
so that they may be prepared to battle
for living with the odds in their
favor; and, at the same time to charter
fewer rum shops, with back doors lead
ing to the State Penitentiary, before
il, can escape the charge of the French
philosopher: ''SocietY prepares the
crime which the criminal commits"
T. L. C.