Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 174, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 August 1917 — FIND VAST DECREASE IN BRITISH JAIL INMATES [ARTICLE]

FIND VAST DECREASE IN BRITISH JAIL INMATES

London. —The war has had the effect of reducing crime in Great Britain to an astonishing degree. There are now 7,000 fewer men and 700 fewer women in prison than at the beginning of the war. The total number of prisoners is 9,032.