The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-12-27
CONNECTS PAY EXPENSES.
JVETHERSFIELD INMATES MAKE
 ANITV RECORD,

Income From Labor and other Sources
 Last Year Was seventy-four Per
 Cent. of Operating Expenses-Good
 Thing fer Prisoners as Well as for
 state-Features of Aunlna Report.
 The annual report of the State Pris- on association, which has just been sent to the governor, is signed by Pres ident James W. Cheney of South Man chester, Vice. President w. o, Burr, Frank c. Sumner and Thomas Dudley Wells of Hartford, w. c. Reynolds of East Haddam, Edward A. Fuller of Suffield and Frederick M. Salmon of Westport The main features of the report are as follows:
 Tha striking fact in connection with the administration of the Connecticut State Prison for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1906, was the establish ment of new record for revenues. Earnings from productive labor aggre- gated $57, ,411 while receipts from vari- ous other sources swelled the total in- come to $61 015 This showing, repre- senting nearly "A per csnt. of the opera ting exp p5nses of the insetitution, sur passes the income exhibited any previ- ous year, and enabled the prison man. agement, despite the high cost of sup plies, to limit to $22, S61 it's draft upor the state treasury,
 All the able bodied convicts were reg ularly employed. Steady productive Ia Dor, supplemented by a varied and nu tritious diet by adequate library facil ities by firm albeit kindly disciplin and by other helpful agencies, is thu best scheme of reform yet invented best for the delinquent by supplying him with ladder by which he ma,
 climb rung by rung, back to proper so cial adjustment, and best for the tax
 payer by lifting a few hundred weigh from the economic burden of crime.
 No effective substitute for hard an
 intelligent work in promoting tha we
 fare of the convict is likely ever to |
 devised by the wit of man, and on th other hand, the mischief which Sata
 still finds for idle hand2 to do is n,
 where else so pronounced as behin , locks and bars. Employment does n
 necessarily beget moral betterment bl
 unemployment necessarily prevents Likelihood of reformation ends whel idleness begins.
 l The figures of population for the ye; developed a moderate drift toward e,
 pansion. Dipping to a minimum of 4 and rising to a maximum of sos, u
 census showed a daily average of 4 t This number exceeds by sixteen u 9 average daily cunt for 1905 and su
 passes by seven the average for | E past five years, although it falls twen short of 1S99 The annual variation ,. the size of the penal colony follows
 fixed law, but the gen ral princiI c that, other things being equal, indu r trial depression tends to promote SCI e ous crime, and industrial prosperity n check it, usually holds good, althouj - it occasionally suffers a bruise or tN 7, Including the sighty-9ne convicts W
 were transferred from Newgate, t 4 number of criminals who have be !, sentenced to the Connecticut Sta /, Prison since the opening of the ins
 tuition at Wethersfeld in 1927 sligh
 exceeds eight thousand-a checker throng that has committed nearly ey ry known offehse against property, p'
 son and chastity and that has rep d sented lal typ.s of delinquency frC le the keen brains gone askew and sec le ing to play the game of life crooked 0. to the dull and stupid intellects eas e, swept from their insecure moral mo y ings by gusts of passion,
 The annual number of admissions,