Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1902-12-11

cost $e8,o96 pei year, while in tie
Canadian prisons 1882 prisoners
cost $329,q82.
Thirty-four guards have charge
of the prisoners. Of these, two
watch the condemned men, leaving
81 men for goo prisoners, or one
man for 80 meu. But the greatest
number of officers on duty on the
yard at any Que time IS 16 or tor
every 60 men
This Is the smallest number OF
guards, proportionately, in any In
stitution In America. Pennsyl-
vania has IS guards for 675 prison
ers; Ohio 112 for 1850 prisoners
and Michigan So guards for 76I
prisoners.
The Institution has SIS cells,
some AZ feet, some S feeG wide, by
7 high, and 7 deep, with which TO
accommodate $50 prisoners. The
cells have no System of ventii-
alton, no closets or wash bowls,a ard
In 365 cells lwo men must be con-
fined In each cell on an average, IS
hours a day.
The cells are entirely too small,
too few In number, and are nee
essarily unsanitary, and the con-
fuement of two prisoners In one
cell Is not subsersive OF good discip
line, good health, and good morals.
The walls enclose four acres.
Baltimore,s o81 prisoners are In a
21 acre enclosure. Ohio has 2S
acres, and the Western Peniten-
tiary of Pennsylvania has 16 acres.
The institution Is now building a
$40 10000 chapel and dining room
kitchen and library building, and
will use the old dining loom and
chapel building for factory In
which to work its now unemployed
prisoners.
A small truck farm has recently
been purchased in sight of the ad-
mlnistration building, which keeps
the COWS that supply the Iustitu
ton with milk, and on which all
the hogs used for pork are fattened
with prison Stops, and at which
many Of the vegetable consumed by
the inmates are raised.
When priaoners are received,
they are taken first to the Warden 5
quarters where their commitment
papers are examined, theDCe to the
South Hall, where their money, or
other valuables, if any, Is taken,
and recorded for their future use;
thence they are taken to the photo
graph gallery, where front and
side view is taken of each, thence
to the bath house, where they are
bathed, shaved, hair cut. and pro-
vided with prison clothing, under
clothing, hose and shoes; thence to
the south hall, where they are in
structed In the rules of the institu-
ton; thence to the Bertillon room,
where, divested of all clothing,
their bertillon measurments, color
of eyes and hair, marks aud scars
are taken and recorded, after which
they are assigned to work.
! Cells are unlocked at $50 a. m.
Men work nine hours day In the
shops. Many prisoners earn and
receive over time, amounting to
from so cents to $16 per month.
The shops close about AIS p. m ,
after which comes supper, a short
march In the yard and then to
their cells about SIS.
About 200 men are permitted In
the halls, or on the yard until 1890
p. m. One hundred persons 60 to
school FIVE nights In the week, the
intention being to give everyone
rudimentary education.
At nine o'clock The bugle sounds,
the guards leave the walls, the
electric lights In the cells are turned
off, and the prisoners must main
tain silence until morning.
On Sunday there Is church ser.
vice In the chapel, beginning with
a class service at 8 o'clock which
Is voluntary, and apon which atten.
dance Is not required or insisted.
At 9 o'clock comes the general ser
vice, attended by all tine prisoners,
and led by the chorister and chap
lain.