The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1888-08-01
New York Provides for Her Idle Pris-
Onerk.

New York Provides for Her Idle Pris-
Oners.
Notwithstanding the labors of the Ma
tiOnal Prison Congress, and the National
Board of Charities, and all recent efforts
to make All advance in the treatment of
criminality that will fit the prisoner for the
duties of life and enable him to honorably
cope with his fellow man in the field of in
tellgent labor. the New York legislature,
when called together for the special pur-
pose of providing labor for the inmates OF
her prisons. enacted the following law on
the Goth of July:
An act providing for the proper employment of
convicts in the penal institutions of the state
and making an appropriation necessary to pre-
vent prisoners remaining in ideness.
SECTION l. No motive power machinery
for manufacturing purposes shall be placed
or used in any Of the penal institutions of
the state. and no person in such institution
shall be required or allowed to work while
under sentence thereto at any trade or in
duStry where his labor. or the production
or profit of his labor is farlned out. con-
tracted. given or sold to any person or per-
sons whOmsOever.
Sec. 9. The superintendent of state pris-
Ons and all other officers having in charge
the management of the penal institutions
of the state shall hereafter cause to be man
ufactured therein by the inmates therein
such articles only as are commonly needed
and used in the public institutions of this
state for clothing and other necessary sup
plies of such institutions and the inmates
thereof; and all the articles manufactured
in such penal institutions not required for.
use therein shall be furnished to the several
institutions supported in whole or in part
by the state for the use of their inmates
upon the acquisitions of the trustees and
managers thereof upon the superintendent
of state prisons, and no article so manu-
featured shall be purchased for the use of
such inmates unless the same cannot be
furnished upon such reQusitiOn.
SEC. 3. The controller. the superntend-
ent of state prisons and the president of the
state board of charities shall constitute
board whose duties shall be to fix and
determine the value or price at which all
articles manufactured in such penal insttu-
ton and furnished for use in the several
institutions of the state, shall be furnished,
which price shall be uniform to all institu-
tons. The controller shall advise and
furnish to the several institutions proper
form for such requsitiOn and also a proper
system of accounts to be kept for all such
transactions. All moneys received for such
articles 80 furnished upon requstions shall
be paid into the treasury as now required
by law in cases of sales OF the products of
state prisons.
SEC. 4. The sum of $3.50. 900, or so
much thereof as may be necessary is here
by appropriated out OF any money in the
treasury, not otherwise appropriated, for
the purchase of materials for manufacture
ing purposes in the penal institutions of the
state. and for all purposes connected with
the manufacturing industries therein. to be
expended in the purchase OF material to be
manufactured in accordance with the pro-
visions of the first and second sections of
this act and in manufacturing articles for
the use of the state and its institutions
only.
SEC. 5. This act shall take effect i'm
mediately.