The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-11-19

mental and physical health TO keep them
Idle IN their cells
There viii be no deficiency in the main
;enanee fund fer the year. All the I'M
movements that are nsedful for years 20
come ut this institution have now been
made. and while the total cost per capita
for maintenance has been bat very little
above that OF former years. IL was made
so BY the numerous Improvements
enumerated above, and the cost OF
maintenance of the penitentiary for the
two years ending March 81, 1897, and for
which the next legislature will be asked TO
provide. Is SIS, COO being $4,000 less than
Was a.ked of the last legislature, being
based on an average OF 500 prisoners at 40
cents per capita per diem. There IS cell
room for eS4 men and fifteen women, With
an average of 800 men and four women
The couvicts are now better clothed and
better fed than ever before. and they work
better and more contented. Not single
prisoner has escaped since Warden Cob
lenfx took charge.
The output OF the juse mill now aver
ages 5000 grain bags per day. 1t formerly
made 400 per day. The demand for
grain bags this year has been so great
that the prison has sold about l,Soo,uu0
bags, in addition TO large quantities OF
hop and kiln cloth, wool bags. etc.
The estimated needs of the farmers of this
state for this season was 5000, 600 bags.
aud If the mill were run on bags alone 1t
could make only 1000. 900. SO that,
without increasing the capacity OF
the mill, it 10 next to impossi-
bic TO supply even one-shird of the
grain bags needed. The introduction Of
electric light into the mill win enable
the convi cts to do full days work this
winter each working day. instead OF
short days wo-k, and this will materially
increase the output. The mill has made .
small profit for the state the past year,
SO. COO
The prison has made during the past
season about I,25o. 900 brick, and all the
brick on hand left over from last season.
as well as large number of those made
this year, have been placed in the new
buildings.
The average punishment of prisoners is
less than IL ever was in the history of the
institution. The warden says, in conclu-
sion:
at has been my endeavor while here to
Undue every prisoner in the institution
upon him the fact that when he is
liberated progressive people will
extend 10 him the assistance he
deserves if he really aspires to become
good citizen, and believe that my efforts
in this direction Will bear good fruit.
Many criminals are incorrigible, but
large majority are susceptible to good
teachings, and l maintain now, and al
ways shall, that the officers of prison
are no less wanting in humanity
towards their fellow creatures than are
other citizens. but on the contrary, they
exercise this trait with more discretion, by
reason of their experience and actual con-
tact with the criminal classes. than do
those whose misguided philanthropy So
called, is based entirely on hearsay evil
dence"
There were 40 convicts in the prison
October 1. 1888. and on September /. 1884.
AIS Nine were pardoned. four died. one
was killed while attempting to escape. OF
the new convicts received three were for
life. The counties have sent convicts TO
the asy lum as follows.