| Show convict labor on state roads for alie benefit of the prisoners and the public alike arthur pratt wirden of the state prison urges continuance of the ue of convict labor on fcoite highway in the biennial report of the state board of corrections filed with the governor alie warden bays eliat not only does the public benefit by the road improvements prove ments but the prisoner benefits from belter health and in view of tin fact that allowance on a prisoners time is made for faithful work it spurs him to better efforts it 13 shown by the warden that since alio prisoners have been working on the highways they have performed 11 worth of h bor this is estimated on a babii of the time the men put in at work and the estimated cost of 2 25 a daiy diy to the elate for labor employed in washington county alone they did 47 worth of labor during the two scars lut ending the prison received prisoners and discharged by expiration of sentence parole birdon or ecith SOS alie number of in mites two airs ago wis as against now the cost of of the prison his avenged 69 9 cents per prisoner a slight increase over the per capita expense of to years ago due to increased cost of supplies and extra expense of operating road campa the prison needs for the coming biennium th warden estimates of this Is asked for geneal fora women sward for the convict camps for a sewer system for gratuities to prisoners discharged from the institution for an armory and improvements and le pairs for an ice plin tand milk house and for smoke consumers for two boilers the appropriation for the bat biennium totaled 49 of which there n a balance of 18 of this 21 is in the convict labor fund and most of the reit re it in the womans comans ward fund it having been impossible to make that improvement in the past two years it ia estimated that the value of the state prison property is 22 there are 1853 books in the library and it ia reported thit it is growing constantly during the two years 23 prisoners leavo been pardoned and 33 paroled eight escaped one was executed and one died of those who escaped faix were burg arv is the principal offense for which men are serving time and men have been received for that of bense in tho biennium were received for murder in the first degree four for second degree murder 30 for forgery 45 for robbery and six for voluntary manslaughter from salt like county cime of the convicts or over half the total number received there ia no good reason wh a small min fill a big place in the worlds affairs |
