Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 January 1875 — Prison Statistics. [ARTICLE]

Prison Statistics.

The annual report of the officers of the State Prison South was made public on the morning of the 30th. The Directors compliment Col. Shuler, the Warden, and repeat the opinion expressed in a former report, that he has no superior in the management of convicts. The Warden submits his sixth annual report, from which the following figures are taken: Total receipts ; $79,911 63 Total expenditures 79,853 25 Excess of receipts gg gg Total earnings 69,226 34 Ordinary expenses '. 52,937 03 Excess of earnings Cost of repairs 21,577 21 Convicts’ labor account for year is 64,098 20 Daily average number of convicts at work 888 The report of Dr. Wm. H. Sheets, prison physician, states that the year has been an unusually anxious one. During the summer 200 cases of dysentery were treated, twelve of which were fatal; and during the year over 1,200 cases of different diseases were under treatment. The exact figures are: Total number treated i 225 Percentage of deaths ’ 10 Treated in hospital ’ gjj’ Treated out of hospital .’.”."l,001 The general health of the prison is good at present. The Chaplain, Rev. John W. Sullivan, reports that no one act of kind consideration has had so fine a moral effect as the substitution of new clothing for the degrading striped garb heretofore worn. Religious exercises are regularly conducted, and much interest is taken in them by many prisoners. The following table gives the counties represented, and number from each: Vl «°^ s7 ; Vanderbur g» 56; Jefferson, 18; Knox, 90; Clark, 13, Floyd, 18; Hendricks, 10; Hi HP ley * Bartholomew, 9; Decatur 13; Marion 4; Pike. 5; Clay, 3; Norwich, 8; Morgan, 2; Daviess, 1; Martin, 4; Monroe 6; Switzerland, 9; Hancock, 7; Crawford, 7 Rush, 1; Gibson, 16; Franklin, 4; Parker, 9: Or«y?e>4; Wayne, 14; Brown, 1: Laporte 1 WMfflngton, 5; Owens, 8; Dubois, 4; Henry, 4; Sullivan 7; Fayette, 8; Spencer, V; John! son, 9; Jackson, 11; Dearborn, 8; Greene, 4; Putnam, 9; Perry, 2; Jennings, 4; Shelby, 12; U. S. District, 2. Total, 417. ’ CHIMBS AND NUMBER OF BACH. Mntder, 57; manslaughter, 14; rape, 14; grand larceny, 203; burglary, 20; assault and battery with intent to kill, 41; intent to rape 10; Intent to rob, 3; robbery, 7; larceny and

burglary, 10; petit larceny, 94; receiving viMKtfair ’swrTXKc* ahd scmbkb or mack. Life, 88; 21 years, 12; 20 years, 2; 10 years, 1; 18 years, 1; 10 years, 1; 15 years, 1:14 years, 4; 13 years, 1; 10 years, 13; 9 years, 4; 8 years, 8; 7years, 8; 6 years, 7; 5 years, 84; 4)f years, 3:4 years, 5»; Byears, 43; 2% yews, 8:8 years, 1&; IK years, 1; 1 year, 94. Total, 417. Number of convicts who can read mid write, 273; readonly, 48; no education, 97; number intemperate, 146; moderate, 138; temperate, 144. Total, 417. . _ Number married, 39; single, 363; widowers, 125; in confinement Dec. 16,1873, 383; since received, 230; recaptured, 1. total, 614. Discharged, 137; pardoned, 24; died, 23; remanded,' 14; escaped, 6; commuted, 1; transferred, 3-197. Total in confinement, 417. *