CONVICT ROAD CAMP, FULTON COUNTY, GEORGIA. 
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CONVICT POPULATION. 
TERMS, CRIMES, AND CHARACTERISTICS. 
The first 17 convicts assigned to the camp were taken from the 
county camp known as the "honor" camp. It has been mentioned 
that the inmates of this camp were chosen as a mark of honor for good 
behavior in other camps, but that they were allowed neither the 
liberties nor the privileges customarily granted to honor convicts. 
Subsequently, recruits were drawn from each of the other county 
camps upon the recommendation of the various deputy wardens 
that they were worthy of trust and deserving of the honor which 
promotion to the honor camp implied. The average daily popula- 
tion was 39.2. There is reason to believe that the men selected 
were not always either the most trustworthy or the most deserving 
of those eligible. The deputies in charge of the other camps mani- 
fested a natural desire to retain their best men. In fact, though the 
population of the experimental camp formed only about 7 per cent 
of the total convict population of the county, it is probable that 
fully 30 per cent would have responded successfully to the same 
discipline. 
Table 27 contains a list of the crimes and sentences of all con- 
victs assigned to the camp, and shows that the maximum sentence 
was 5 years, the minimum 3 months, and the average 12 months; 
while the average length of time served in the camp was about 6 
months. It will be observed also that the majority of the crimes 
are such as might be presumed to indicate a lack of honesty and 
strong sense of honor in the criminals, and that only a compara- 
tively small percentage are crimes of impulse. These facts are more 
clearly brought out in the analysis of crimes in Table 28. 
Table 27. — Terms and crimes of inmates, Fulton County, Ga., Experimental Convict 
Camp, January 10 to August 22, 1916. 
Prison No. 
Crime. 
Sen- 
tence. 
Time to 
serve 
when 
received. 
Years. 
5 
5 
3 
Months. 
16 
12 
12 
12 
12 
12 
12 
6 
12 
12 
12 
12 
36 
24 
24 
16 
12 
Months. 
3 
2 
do 
21 
6 
3 
do... 
4 
do 
f 
5 
do 
6 
do 
7 
do 
3 
8 
.... do . . 
2 
9 
do 
i 
10 
do... 
11 
do 
6 
12 
9 
13 
..do. . . 
8 
14 
do 
5 
15 
do 
5 
16 
15 
17 
do 
13 
18 
...do 
f 
19 
do 
20 
do 
9 
