Show OUR ENORMOUS PRISON There are more than eighty prisoners' in the reformatories and penitentiaries of the United Approximately ten thousand of these are there for homicide in one form or More than five thou sand of these serving terms fori homicide are life It is estimated that the cost of in the United States is more than a billion dollars a Some 1 writers have asserted that it is as much as five billion dollars a but such figures are not supported by the more conservative author 1 A full half billion dollars has been invested in 1 ings and equipment of the various penal institutions of the More than a million men are en c in one capacity or f in combating crime or its jf |