MICHIGAN. 



585 



placing girls in private families or apprenticing 

 them until twenty-one years old, to which age 

 all warrants of committal run. Number of 

 inmates, forty, with a monthly increase of from 

 five to ten. The experiment is yet a new one, 

 and, though some most unpromising material 

 has been received, the officials in charge of the 

 school report satisfactory results " beyond all 

 expectation." The governing board of the 

 school consists, under the law, of " three women 

 and two men." 



C. A. Gower, the new Superintendent of the 

 State Reform School (for boys), furnishes per- 

 sonal and financial statistics, as follows : In- 

 mates of school, September 30, 1880, 316; 

 received during year, 158 ; released, 165 ; re- 

 maining, September 30, 1881, 309. 



.Receipts current expense fund $54,082 42 



special appropriations 17,856 06 



Total 172,788 48 



Paid from current expense fund $50,161 82 



special appropriations 11,27929 



Total payments . 



61,44111 



Unexpended September 80 $11,347 37 



Annual legislative appropriations for each 

 year, 1881-'82, $35,500. During the year a 

 chapel has been erected, and in connection 

 with the same a large reading-room has been 

 fitted up, which the boys are permitted to use 

 evenings. A " play-shed " has also been built, 

 in which the boys engage in active sports dur- 

 ing stormy weather. 



The Warden of the State House of Correc- 

 tion and Reformatory reports : 



Number of prisoners September 80, 1 880 837 



' received on sentence 886 



" discharged by expiration of sentence. .. 792 



4i discharged by order of court 26 



" pardoned 8 



died 5 



' ; escaped and not recaptured 5 



" sent out as witness 1 



" remaining September 30, 1881 886 



The earnings of the prisoners for the year 

 were : On contracts, $22,212.39 ; on prison- 

 work, $18,252.81 ; total, $40,495.19. The re- 

 ceipts for the year were : On account of build- 

 ing and special appropriations, $8,618.18; on ac- 

 count of current expenses, $53,968.82; total, 

 $62,587. Disbursements: On account of build- 

 ing and special appropriations, $5,899.84; on 

 account of current expenses, $54,053.74 ; total, 

 $59,953.58. Excess of receipts over expendi- 

 tures, $2,633.42. 



The following statistics of the State Prison 

 are collected from the manuscript of the War- 

 den's unpublished report : 



Number of prisoners September 80, 1880 778 



' received during the year 210 



" discharged by expiration of sentence 261 



" discharged by order of the Supreme Court 2 



" pardoned by the Governor 13 



died 9 



" escaped 4 



u transferred to Detroit House of Correction 1 



" remaining in prison September 80, 1681 699 



Average length of sentence received during 

 the year, three years, ten months, eight days. 



Net earnings of prisoners f 91,767 75 



Net expenditures b8,445 65 



Net income $3,822 10 



Number of prisoners at work on contracts, 

 September 30, 1881 : 



On wagon contract 110 



' shoe contract 51 



" barrel contract 62 



" cigar contract 65 



" agricultural-tool contract 171 



Total. 



449 



The remaining 250 prisoners are employed 

 under the direction of the officers. The coal 

 used in the prison (not in the shops, contrac- 

 tors furnishing their own power and fuel) is 

 mined on the prison-grounds. 



The sentences for the year were for the fol- 

 lowing offenses : 



Against life and person 56 



'' chastity and decency 18 



" property 147 



Total 216 



The offenses against life, both for the year 

 and since 1847, the date of the abolition of 

 capital punishment, are classified : 



There are now confined in prison : 



. For murder in first degree 86* 



" murder in second degree 27 



" manslaughter 18 



" murderous assaults 87 



Total 168 



Or 25 per cent of the whole number sentenced 

 for the offenses named. 



The average term served by life-convicts is 

 seven and a half years, or lower than the aver- 

 age term of service of men received on sen- 

 tence of fifteen years. 



The prison history of life-convicts is sum- 

 marized : 



Died In prison 43 



Discharged by courts 17 



Sent to Detroit House of Correction 6 



Pardoned 8St 



Escaped 4 



Kemaining in prison 60 



At the last session of the Legislature a bill 

 was passed by the House restoring capital pun- 

 ishment, which was indefinitely postponed in 

 the Senate as soon as received in that body, 

 without a word of debate, by a vote of eight- 

 een to eight. 



The population of the State, by counties, 

 in 1880, as compared with 1870, was as fol- 

 lows : 



* Includes one sentenced In 1848. 



t The pardons were, with scarcely an exception, given to 

 prisoners whose )we of life was about to expire. 



