Show convict labor la in the united stated att commissioner carroll D wright has issued a statistical report on an convict labor in the united states the total number of convicts in the various penal institutions of the country has risen from in 1885 to in 1895 and the number engaged in productive labor has increased during the same period from to the total value of goods produced or worked on in the united states in all the state prisons and penitentiaries aries was in 1895 a decrease in 1885 the total value of the product of convict labor was and the wages paid for convict labor in that year aggregated at the present time the talal value of co convict labor does not exceed the decline is made clearer by an enumeration ot of the sates in whose penal institutions it has taken place these are arizona arkansas california colorado Geor georgia gLa illinois indiana iowa kansas kentucky louisiana 1 maine main michigan Mleh igan mississippi nebraska ne vada new jersey new newyork york north carolina ohio oregon pennsylvania south dakota tennessee and andr west vir idnia glela in the remaining states there was an increase |