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Show CONVICT LABOB. More convict-made goods are produced pro-duced in Missouri than in any other SUte. The value of the food consumed annually an-nually by a convict is, on the av..jgc, $51.37. - The average cost of guarding and at-, tendance for a convict for a year is $58.65. . The average annual 'product of convicts con-victs exploited under the prison contract con-tract system is $984. To produce -vith outside labor a year's output or prisoners, would require re-quire $11,915,429 in wages. Penal and reformatory institutions have invested $4,500,000 in machinery used by convicts. It is estimated that in productive efficiency three outside laborers are equal to five convict laborers, on an average. About one-third of convict-made goods are disposed of in the Ptate where made, the remaining two-thirds being sold outside the State of production. produc-tion. The volume of prison-made scrubbing brushes and shoe brushes is so great as virtually to have driven the outside manufacturers of these goods out of business. |