Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 77, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 May 1902 — State Charities Report. [ARTICLE]

State Charities Report.

An army of men and women numbering 28,014 lived in the jails of Indiana at one time or another during the year ending Nov. Ist, 1901. This total is 550 greater than that of the year before. Of this number nearly 16,000 were prisoners serving sentence, almost 750 were confined as insane, and over 5,000 were fed and housed as tramps.