The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-12-21
State Reports Shows That
Criminals Start Ca
reers Early
MOST SENTENCES
DUE TO LIQUOR
Alabama Penitentiary
Has Less Inmates Than
Last Year
1853 PAROLED
DURING YEAR
Jefferson Sends More Prisoners
Than Any Other County
In The State
Estate Capital Bureau.)

MONTGOMERY, Ala, Dec. 90
Further evidence that large proper
ton of criminals get started on their
careers early in life was shown in the
annual statistical report of the state
board of administration for the fiscal
year ending September 80, 1924, made
public today. The report showed that
of total of 1,127 conyicts received
into the penitentiary during the year,
2O6 were 20 years of age and under {;
293 were q years of age; and 1872 were
26 to 80 years of age, making a total
of 681, or considerably more than half
the entire number received, who were
80 years of age or under.
An interesting point in the report was
the fact that of 1927 prisoners re-
ceived, 1853 were sentenced for viola
ton of the prohibition law. Grand lar
ceny came second in the list of crimes,
with 1876, and there were 119 prisoners
sentenced for burglary, 80 for second
degree murder, 26 for first degree muir
der, IS for assault to murder, and A
for forgery. The total number of pris-
oners in the penitentiary September 30,
1924 was 1899, compared with 1926
on hand October 1, 1928.
The number of prisoners paroied dur
ing the year was 1853, in addition to
which 454 temporary paroles were
! granted, while 1876 prisoners were dis
charged during the year, and the num-
Der Of deaths from all causes was 20.
Number of escapes during the year was
20, and number of recaptures %. The
recaptures- were not all of course from
among the prisoners who escaped dur
ing the year, some of the men recap
tured having escaped during previous
years.
Jefferson Leads List
Jefferson county headed the list in
number of convicts sent to the peniten-
tiary during the year, with 126. Mont
gomery county was second with 40,
Mobile third with 48, Lauderdale fourth
with 40 and Dallas fifth with 40. Only
one person was sent to the penitentiary
from Greene, county during the year,
two from Dale and Pickens, three from
Coffee, Crenshaw, st. Clair and Wash
ington counties.
OF the total number of prisoners re-
ceived, $50 were white men, 2 white
women, total whites 561; 517 negro
men, 40 negro women, total negroes 566.
Out of the total of $3.50 convicts
on hand September 80, 1924, 1870 were
prisoners who can read and write" and
902 prisoners who cannot read and
write"
How Distributed
Distribution of prisoners on Septem-
Der 30, 1924, was as follows: Mining
coal, LAS; saw mill, 145 cotton
mills, 1857; shirt factory, 267; dairy
25; underwear factory, 81; farming,
flunkies in hospital aged and in
firm, etc., 781; tuberculosis pa
tients, "a; capitol convicts, 10. There
were 100 convlcts at Aldrich prison, 81
at Banner, 219 at Belle Ellen; 5O4 at
Flat Top; 769 at Kilby; 65 at No. 4,
1875 at River Falls, $50 at Speigner;
212 at Wetumpka and Is at the capitol.
Religious inclination of state con-
victs as of September 30, 1924, was as
follows:
Baptist, 1901; Methodist, 1856; Cath
Ollie, Il; Episcopalian, 8; Christian,
90; Presbyterian, 48; Primitive Bap-
fist, 13; all others, II unaffiliated, 932;
grand total, 2,899.
OF the total number OF convicts, 2,406
were employed at time of arrest, and
493 were unemployed at time of ar
rest.
In addition to the 1927 new convicts
received during the year, there were
received 40 convicts whose paroles had
been revoked by the governor.