Norwich bulletin., 1916-04-04
TWELVE THOUSAND GO
TO JAIL ANNUALLY
Norwich Jail Received 4ee Prisoners
During the Past Year.

Approximately 1880 persons are |
sent to Jail yearly in Connecticut. |
Reports for the year ending Sept. 80. |
1915, show L., 499 persons received at
county jails. OF this number 1,I9O
were women, but the three big jails |
of Hartford, New Haven and Fairfield
county received most of them New
London county had only fifty-one for
the year, Windham county five, Litch-
field four, and MiddleseX and Tolland
counties three each.
There are eleven jails in Connecti-
cut Each of the eight counties has
one. there is an extra one in Norwich.
and what are termed temporary jails
at Waterbury and Danbury. The cost
for the last fiscal year was $262, 592. "a
which is not entirely paid by taxes,
however, as there are several items of
returns, one being the labor of prison.
ers. All the counties except Holland
show fairly substantial earnings on the
part of jail prisoners, the aggregate
being $50, 537.69.
ToIIand County.
The smallest jail of the state is that
in Tolland county a Tolland with It's
average of fifteen prisoners. 1t re-
ceived ninety mine offenders in its
last fiscal year, three Of the number
being women. The one woman at the
Jail now helps with the houseworll
! This jail has a 125-acre farm and a
dozen or more men are employed on
1t, raising produce for their own con-
sumption. The report from TolIand
shows no earnings by the Jail prison
ers, but sales reached about $500, q
figure too high to be confined to grease
and bones, waste paper and similar
articles, so indicating that some of
the farm product was sold. Prisoners
are occasionally hired out in the
neighborhood. Two men work in the
kitchen and two others around the
building. 1t cost S7,596.97 to operate
| the Jail last year. Frederick O. VIM
ton, the sheriff, lives at Mansfield.
Windham county let's it's Jail pris-
oners out to work on the highways
and farms in the vicinity The Jail Is
at Brooklyn and from the farm con-
nected with it considerable wood is cut
and sold. The finances of this Jail
are interesting, the yearly earnings of
the prisoners having aggregated So
39i.6S, while the cost of maintenance
was Sf5,151-91. The county has an
average jail population of seventy
! five. The number received during the
year was 354. five being women. and
the sheriff. Charles A. Gates, lives at
Willimantic
The largest number of prisoners is
received in New Haven county. the
2all figures there being 1854 for the
fiscal year. The average population
behind the bars is 400 and more than
half are employed in the Jail factory
where the Metropolitan Chair COM
| pany has the contract for the Jail la
Dor at $1,000 year. Including the
| jail at Waterbury, where prisoners
await trial and are sometimes con-
| fined for very short terms the Jail ex-
penses of New Haven county are $685.
$40 year. Women received during
the year at the New Haven jail num-
Dered 550, but their stays We're not
! long, and most OF them were employ
| ed in cooking for the other prisoners
Sheriff Philip Hugo resides at New
| Haven.
Fairfield county has its principal Jail
| at Bridgeport and the sheriff, Simon
| Pease, lives not far away in Fairfield.
| The yearly number admitted, accord
| ing to last report, was 3,072 and the
average population 22O. There are now
Just 200 at the Jail, The labor is con-
tracted for at $1,000 a year. about $50
of the prisoners making blocks and
| other articles of cement. Four men
| are kept busy in the Jail kitchen, and
about twenty more around the build
| ing The female contingent at the Jail
has aggregated 225 for the past year,
OF which sixteen are there now and at
work in the laundry. The Jail at
Danbury is small and used for tenn
porary detention Of prisoners. Its
Iails cost Fairfield county $50,967.63
| last year.
New London County.
Two jails and the new state inc
| DIldte farm are new LONDON county s
portion The Jail at New London
and that at Norwich run curioSsly
| close in statistics. The New London
Jail received 464 prisoners last year.
and the Norwich jail 4S9. making a
total of $50. On September 80, New
London had forty-seven prisoners in
its Jail, and that at Norwich held
exactly the same number. The aver
afe population of the New London
jail was sos, and Norwich averaged
50.7. The careers of fifty-one women
led them to these county jails in the
past year, and they were utilized at
house work Both at New London
and Norwich the men prisoners work
at reseating chairs, cleaning carpets
and mending bags for grain con-
Germs. This work being done in the
jail corridors, and at New London
seven men are employer around the
building. Earnings OF New London
county jail prisoners totaled ST.
S2s.36 for the fiscal year, and jail
expenses were $14,241.62.
The new inebriate farm at Nor
wich to which men are committed
from all parts of the state. has at