The Fremont County record. [volume] (Canon City, Colo.) 1877-18??, 1881-02-05
Penitpptiary Items,

Steam was got up in the boiler on Tues
day and turned into the pipes. The huge
coils of pipe in the cell rooms gave on the
requisite amount of heat and hereafter
those rooms will be as comfortable as the
best room in The city.
On Wednesday the heavy cooking kettles
arrived. The operation of preparing food
for the numerous prisoners will thus be
very much simplited and cconomized
Allegations have been made against the
sanitary condition and general manage
inent of the penitentiary. The following
facts regarding the Colorado prison and
Others in tbs United States, may be of IN
terest just now. There is no state prison
in the United States in which there is Il
less number of deaths and fewer escapes
than in the penitentiary of Colorado:
Colorado Penitentia ry.-Number of con-
rcts, 2l6. Deaths in two years, two. Es-
capes in two years, seven. Cost per man
per day, including all expenses of the insti
tuition, except permanent improvements
56 cents. Officers expenses per day per
man, l4a cents. Cost to state in two years.
$4,000.
Ill'neis (SpringGe,d) Penitentiary Num-
ber of convicts. ,4S3. Deaths in two years
30. Escaped, .. Cost per day per man,
"A S1-l00 cents. Officers expenses per day
man, 15I ceats. Cost to state in two years
Sl24,32 No prisoners are allowed to
labor outside OF the walls of this prison.
hence the few escapes.
Illinois (Chester) Penitentiary-Nu
of conyicts, 1875. Deaths, four in six
months.
Michigan Penitentiary.--Nun Der of con-
Nicts, 3S7. Deaths in one year, f. Escapes
in one year, s. Cost per man per day, 49,
cents.
Kansas Penitcntiary.-Num of con-
Victs, G47. Deaths in two years, H. Es-
capped in two years s. Cost per man per
day, ~ cents. Cost to state for two Years
Sl43. 20.
California Penitentiary.-Number of con-
victs, LIB. Deaths in two years, %. Es-
capped, I. Cost per man per day, 5S cents.
Cost to state in two years, So. .5ls. The
prisoners in this institution are ali let out
to contractors.
Texas Penitentiary ry-Number of conyicts
2,l57. Deaths in twenty-three months, 25G.
Escaped i'll twenty-three months, G97. The
conYicts in this state are all worked outside
OF the walls.
New Jersey Penitentiary. OF
convicts, 7sS. Deaths in TWO years, %.
Iowa Penitentiary.--Num of convicts
$50. Deaths in two years .. Escapes in
two years, II. Cost to state in two years
SOB, 1880.
Vermont Penitentiary. of con-
yicts, 1J9. Deaths in two years, s. Es-
capped, L.
Maryland Peni;cntiary. of con-
Nicts, 59l. Deaths in two years, T.
North Carolina NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
of conyicts,' 322. Deaths in two years, %.
Escaped, 8. Cost to state, $261 ,s97.O3.
1t viii be observed that the average
death rate for Colorado is less than in any
of the states mentioned. For instance, the
death rate in The Colorado pehitentiary for
two years is only one man in ll3 at
Springfield, Illinois, one in AZ; at Chester,
Illinois, one in IS in six months; in Michi-
gan, one in 95 in one year; in Kansas, one
in 46; in California, one in "a: in Texas,
one III 0 in 20 months; in New Jersey, one
in 81; in Iowa, one in 60; i'll Vermont one
in 10; in Maryland, enc in 81 in North
Carolina, one in ii.