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and overalls for each prisoner per year is from S6.50 to $7. In the 

 States in which there is a penitentiary, the clothing for the road forces 

 generally is made in the prison shops. In a number of the Southern 

 States it is bought ready made from private manufacturers. In 

 certain other States and counties the cloth is bought in large quan- 

 tities and made into clothing by the female prisoners of the county or 

 State, and as an instance of another method, in Chatham County, 

 Ga., clothing for the road forces is made at the county courthouse 

 by the poor people of the city of Savannah, who are paid at the rate 

 of 5 cents per garment for cutting and from 10 to 14 cents for sewing. 



Shirts. 



Shirts usually are made of ticking, or cotton duck, though a 

 cheap cotton madras is used in at least one State. In cost they range 

 from 31 cents, as quoted in New Mexico, for a shirt of ticking, to 75 

 cents for an S-ounce duck shirt in Fulton County, Ga., and $1 for a 

 shirt of herring-bone material used in Arizona. According to the 

 reports of durabihty, as made by officials in charge, aU grades wear 

 from six to eight months. In a number of the southern counties the 

 shirts are worn without coats during the sunmier season. The aver- 

 age cost of shirts per convict per year is approximately $1. 



Night Shirts. 



The investigation showed that special garments for night wear 

 were in use only in very few of the States, and these all in the 

 Southeastern section. From a sanitary standpoint they are abso- 

 lutely essential and from the standpoint of economy they are justified 

 by the saving in wear of the underclothes. They also make possible 

 a reduction in cost of laundering bed clothing. They are usually 

 made of ticking at costs varying from 30 to 75 cents per garment, 

 and wear from six months to one year. The average cost per man 



per year is 75 cents. 



Underclothes. 



Underclothes, shirts and drawers, usually are made of fleece-lined 

 cotton or Canton flannel. Garments of the former goods cost about 

 37^ cents each for shirts and drawers, and of the latter goods 45 to 

 50 cents each. In the Southern States, as a general rule, underclothes 

 are used in winter only. A Ufe of from three to five months per 

 garment is reported from a number of widely scattered locahties, 

 and the average cost per man per year for underclothing is $2.50. 



Socks. 



Sock.s for summer wear are made of cotton, for winter use of wool. 

 The cost varies from 5 to 1 6 cents per pair and the life from 2 to 6 

 wefiks per pair. The average cost of an equipment of socks is $1 per 

 man per year. 



