The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1901-01-09
REPORT OF THE
PRISON BOARD.
Workings Of the enitentiary
for. the Past
Year.

The annual report of the Board Of d.
rectors of the penitentiary was issued
yesterday.
It contains the report of the SUI
perintendent and surgeon of the peniten-
tiary and that OF the surgeon of the State
farm, and gives detailed account of the
operations of all the departments under
its management for the fiscal year end
ing September so. 1860
1t shows the net gain realized at the IN
Stitution for the year to be So0,o3' 90 anu
after dcducting balance to the DEBIT OF
the farm, there is IL net balance OF proht
of S42 239.72 The depression in the shoe
business. says the report has deprlVed
the State of S9240 in hires and has re-
duced the amount of actual cash in the
treasury to the credit of the institution
accordingly.
1t shows the State farm to have been
operated at a loss of SS,o97-lS. but TINS IS
accounted for by the fact that most or
the sick and crippled prisoners are at
the farm hospital.
1t recommends that the Legislature
amend the law in regard to the escape
of convicts so as to make it apply 20 the
State farm and that the farm manage
ment and surgeon be furnished with
1wel1ing-hOuseS
The conditional pardon system IS COM
mended and the report shows that one
hundred and twenty-siN prisoners were
recommended for pardon during the year
and one hundred and two previously
making a total of two hundred and TWEEN
ty-eight and that only one. a woman mas
been returned to the penitentiarE- Inc
report winds up with the urgent recon'
mendation that the cell-room OF 1ne
prison be enlarged and states that while
the establishment of the farm mas, TO
some extent, relieved the congestion, the
matter still needs attention All the OF
ficers of the penitentiary as Well as OF 'i.e
farm are heartily commended TOR theii
efficiency The report is signed by an Tue
members Of the board and appenue,'
thereto is a complete review OF the "clA
of the institution. prepared by ouo'ei '.-
tendent Helms and the two sutstolis'
covering all the details of the hscai seai.
Superintendent Helms report Shows
the daily average number OF coii.ieIS
to have been LIT, who were maintained
AT a cost of 1896 cents per day, a total OF
SCI 90 per capita per year. total loi tiiS
whole number of years being s'o'5oo."-
There were pardoned during the year
II white men, s3 colored men, l "n''e
woman and colored women
There we're % deaf tbs during the year
. white men, II colored men and , coiored
women, colored men at Anderson >
works, and / white and IL co!ored men
at the farm
The number of escapes during the year
was IT, of whom 10 were captured.
The nativity of the convicts Is as fol-
lows:
Alabma, .; Georgia, /; Florida. /; South
Carolina, 3; North Carolina, SO; Virginia
2s2. West Virginia, 8; District OF Columbia.
!: Maryland. 5: New Jersey, ,; Pennsyi-
yania, 4: New York, 5; Illinois, i; Indiana.
i: Missouri, /; Kentucky, I; Tennessee
10: Massachusetts, 2; and California !:
England, /; Cuba, ,.
The crimes for which the 4Sl convic1s
were sentenced are varied. They are
classified as follows:
Abduction, i; administering poison, :;
arson, .: larceny III; murder, AZ; robbery.
IS: embezzlement and forgery. q; be-
trayal, 4: b.Samy, 3; malicious shooting.
cutting. burning, and assault, 40; man
slaughter, 6; and the rest criminal as
sault.
Fourteen men are in the prison for
lfe-three white men and eleven coloTed
men.
Sentences were from to % years-13
received years: 20 got year; 60, years;
50. ) years: got Ii, 90 %, and % years,
respectively.
The average term Of sentence was four
years nine months and eight days. The
average age of the new convicts IS
twenty-stX years and three months, the
youngest being eleven years and the
Oldest seventysiX years.