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.ANNUAL, REPORT OF THE 



Off. Doc. 



These iigures show, that the cost of eouviet labor in these States, is 

 quite moderate, and experience shows tluit the amount of labor 

 which they perform, is e<iual to that of the best hired service. These 

 men are young, strong and active, and experience in p<>ual institu- 

 tions, is such as to show ,that most of the healthy prisoners would 

 much sooner work than live idly in confinement. 



The inmates of the penal institutions of the State of Pennsylvania 

 in 189f , as reported by the State ]>oaid of (Miarities, numbered 8,1 8'J. 

 They were distiibnted as follows: 



State Penitentiary, Philadelphia 



State Penitentiary, Allegheny 



County jails 



House of Correction, Philadelphia 



Allegheny County Workhouse 



House of Refuge, Philadelphia 



Pennsylvania Reform School, Morganza, 



Pennsylvania Industrial Reformatory, Huntingdon, Pa., 



Total 



919 



678 

 3,102 

 814 

 753 

 839 

 620 

 464 



8,183 



The cost of maintaining these convicts is given by the Board of 

 Charities as follows: 



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State Penitentiary, Philadelphia (1900) 



State Penitentiary, Allegheny (1900) 



Pennsylvania Industrial Reformatory (1900), County prisons, including 



workhouses 



House of Correction (IdOl) 



House of Refuge, Philadelphia (1901), 



Pennsylvania Reform School, Morganza (1901) 



Total 



$222,700 2S 

 285,973 44 



133,677 36 

 939,644 12 

 182,109 99 

 115,171 60 



$1,879,276 79 



$2 68 

 4 95 



4 79 

 4 27 

 3 OS 



2 76 



ThT'ee-fourths of the male prisoners could well be employed upon 

 the construction of highways for the Commonwealth, then^by reliev- 

 ing taxation and rendering beneficial service to the State. 



