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Secretary Of State Gardnerihas submit
ted to Gov. Pingree an abstract OF the
reports OF the sheriifs OF the State for the
year ending June 80 last. The report Is
out several months earlier than usual, ac-
cording to the report. The total number
OF prisoners received in the jails of the
State during the year is reported at IT,
$40, OF whom 16,527 were males and 1915
females. The average number in the
jails during the year was 53O5O, and the
average duration Of Imprisonment, 12.S9
days.
The number of prisoners committed for
high crimes was 2,142, and for minor Of
fenses 1928; number OF witnesses 81.
debtors 3S, and insane persons 344. The
causes Of commitment of were not re-
ported.
The whole number of prisoners confined
in the jails, including those in the jails at
the beginning of the year, was 1870. OF
this number $40 were convicted and sent
to State prison; 314 to the State house Of
correction; 1877 to the Detroit house of
correction, 219 to the, Industrial School
for Boys, and 40 to the Industrial Home
for Girls.
The total cost of maintaining the jails
during the year was $135, ,6S1 81. of which
sum S114 ,9S5.94 was paid to sheriffs for
board and keeping OF prisoners. This lat
ter sum includes the amounts received for
clocks and .unlocks." The average cost
per week for board and keeping of each
prisoner was $4.09, and the average total
cost of each prisoner $934.
The tables include reports from all the
counties in the State except Alpena. Four
counties report for only six months, or
from Jan. /, 1897, viz, Branch, Cheboy-
gan, Dickinson and, Wayne, and the re-
port from Ontonagon is only from April
10 to June 30 1897. The Jail of this coun-
ty, together with the Jail records, was
burned Aug. %, 1896. 1t was rebuilt and
the new jail occupied April 10, 1897. The
number Of prisoners received in the jails
Of Bra.-ch Cheboygan, Dickinson and
Wayne Counties in the six months, Janu-
ary-June, was 1927. If il may be assum-
ed that an equal 2imber was received
during the first half of the year, the total
number Of prisoners received in the jails
during the year was something in excess
of 21 ZOO instead of II 7,S42, as shown by
the tables. 1t will be noticed that in this
estimate no account is made of the num-
ber committed to the Alpena Jail, or of the
| number of prisoners in Ontonagon previ-
Gus to April 10, 1897.
The number Of prisoners reported receiv-
ed in the jails in 1873, the first year re-
ports were made, was S,063, as compared
with 1882 reported in 1907, an increase
of 9,779. Dividing the time covered by
the table into periods of five years, the
average number of prisoners reported for
| each of the first FIVE years was 1873; for
the second, S,724; third, 1860; fourth,
l2,2S8, and fifth, 1926. The average
for the last period is 1888 more than for
the first period, an increase of 116 per
cent.
The increase of population from 1874 to
1894 was 907, $40, or 6S per cent. In the
period 1873-77 there was an average of
81 prisoners to each 1000 Of the popula-
ton in 1874, and in the period 1S93-97
an average of 7.3 prisoners to each 1000
| of the population in 1894.