Show OUR ENORMOUS PRISON There are more than eighty thousand 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 homicide are life It M estimated that the cost of in the United States is more a billion dollars a writers have asserted that it is al much as five billion dollars a year but such figures are not supported by the more conservative 1 A full half billion dollars has been invested in ings and equipment of the penal institutions of the country 5 More than a million men are f in one capacity or another in combating crime br punishing its W- |