San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-01-08
THE WORLDS POLICE.
ON the Globe DEMOCRAT.

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county prisons, or to the Maryland
penitentiary at Baltimore.
Four state prisons, those of Con-
necticut, Michigan, Montana and
Washington, use deprivation of re-
ligious privilege as a punishment.
The inmates of English prisons
are employed in picking oakum,
making coal bags for the navy and
mail bags for the general postof-
| fee.
In thirty-siX State prisons in
this country solitary confinement
is used as a punishment, and in
twenty the prisoner is handcuffed
to the wall.
Switzerland furnishes a police
mon a pair of pantaloons every
year, a uniform coat every two
years and a military cloak every
three years.
Constantinople has 10000 peo-
pie, who are kept in order by 1000
policemen. In 1890 only 1900 ar
rests were made; but fifty for
drunkenness.
The convicts of Massachusetts
number $50, employed in making
shoes, brushes, beds, trunks and
harness; 1893 were under 20 years of
age when admitted.
Iowa has 402 male convicts and
twenty female. Their social state
was; Single, l6l married, 80; di-
vorced, .; widowers, 10; widows,
3; grass widowers, 4.
Capital punishment in Denmark
is executed publicly with the AK.
If several are to be decapitated on
the same date, one is not present
while another is executed.
North Carolina convicts make
their breakfast of meat, bread and
coffee; their dinner of meat, bread
and vegetables; their supper of
bread, molasses and Coffee.
Chicago has an estimated popu-
lation of 100000 and 1880 police.
In 1892 there were 4,6S0,S60 duty
calls, 81, 479 wagon calls, 2639 am
bulance calls and S9,S33 arrests.
Judges in Morocco receive either
no pay at all or not enough to live
on, so that justice is not admins
tered, it is sold. He who is most
liberal to the judge Away wins his
cause.
In many cities of Europe women
of known bad character are forbid
den to appear on the public streets
during daylight, save with a writ
ten permission from the chief of
police.
The pay of policemen in China
is $l.50 month, with an allowance
of rice. The police are not armed,
though spears and guns are kept
at the stations in case OF an emer-
gency.
The Bertillon system is in use
in Joliet, and of 400 photographs
now classified and filed there any
one can be found in moments
time from the classification of
measurements.
Nearly one-fourth of the arrests
in Calcutta last year were for. not
abating nuisances. The sanitary
laws in tropical country must be
strictly enforced if public health
is to be preserved.
One penalty of infraction of
French prison discipline is seating
the prisoner on the ground, bound
hand and foot with strong belts
fastened to rings in the wall, so
that he cannot stir.
Among the Hawaiian prisoners
last year, 2503 were Hawaians,
2S6 English; American, 500; Ger
man, 90; French, Is; Portuguese
212; Chinese, 1868; japanese, 267;
South Sea Islanders, 33.
The German empire has no pris-
on of it's own. Offenses against the
IIaperial government are enforced
by the imperial attorneys, who
calls into service the states attor-
neys of the Federal states.
! OF 235 prisoners in Arizona 81
were committed for murder in the
first degree, 80 in the second, 60 for
man-slaughter, As for murderous
assault, 10 for bodily assault and 20
for assault with deadly weapon.
The treadmill and crank labor
are still in use in English prisons.
When a prisoner is unable to per-
form labor of this kind he is set to
breaking stone or picking oakum.
His only reading matter is the
Bible.
On holidays Illinois convicts
have roast turkey and roast pig,
cranherry or annie sauce, mashed