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issea upon 1 two ched risk ex-tees, ;pre-iient issed i theltro-hun-:hat; can Dund ieid. lined rij-ie is iojuq The have the i no vork dol-incko bo it ise—I icto lets, 3 of Clvcs SOSO, agh-Rc-this they v oF as ipon ut-bad forkZ to con-an’t try, iger bcsc lend tage chesto?d pose Iu-; the o it ccr-Min » or .icw scs-e— ttlo isas-orcCastin-aehwhich they cannot successfully compete*The Warden, S.. A. Bcckhastss, Esq., statea that at the date of his last report, January 1st, 1 So5, there were three hundred and thirty-two- convicts confined in the prison. Since that time six hundred and nineteen hare been received, and four hundred and scventy-jii have been discharged, (to-wit:) one hundred and forty-seven have been pardoned by the Governor of Illinois, two hundred and eighty-one have been discharged by expiration of sentence, one by order of the Supreme Court, one by writ of habeas corpus, twenty-six. have died, and twenty have escaped, making tho number now In prison fonr hundred and seventy-five, showing au iucrcasc of over forty per cent., in the laat two years.The folio wing is a statement of the States and counties where the convicts arc bom: Maine, 4; New Hampshire, 2; Vermont 13; Massachusetts, 4; Rhode Island, 1; Connecticut, 3; New York, 7, New Jersey, 6; Pennsylvania, 31; Delaware, 1; Maryland, 3; Virginia, 16; North Carolina, 2; South Carolina, 2; Georgia, 1; Alabama, 1; Louisiana, 2; Ohio, 2G; Tennosaoe, 15; Ken-, tuckj, 24; Indiana, 9; Illinois, 13; Michigan, 2; Missouri, 2; District of Columbia, 1; Unknown, 4: Ireland 78; Germany, 50; England, 31; Canada, 19; France, II; Prussia, 4; Switzerland, 3; Belgium, 1; Norway, I; Wales, 2; Poland, Ij Atluntic Ocean, 1; Scotland, S. White males, 452; white females, 4; colored males, IS. Total, 475.The Warden also refers to the subject of the mileage allowed to Sheriffs for. the conveyance of convicts to the Penitentiary, which has long been a crjin* evil. By the present law the several Sheriff* aro allowed thirty-five cents per mile for the transportation of convicts to the Penitentiary, when the number is not moro than two; for allaver that number taken at any one time,twenty cents per mile is allowed. The amount thu3 paid by the State for the past two years to the Sheriff of Cook county is about elvcn thousand dollars, there being two hundred and thirty-seven convicts sent to the prison from that county alone, and oE the six hundred and nineteen received during the past two years, there tv ere three hundred and forty-aix from the twelve northern counties. Now as the price fixed hy that law was ©vidcntlj’ intended to be a fair remuneration for the services rendered, (there being no railroad facilities at that time,) but now, the Warden argues, when there arc such extensive railroad facilities, and the price for transporting convicts is reduced to three cents per mile, it would seem that the compensation might be reduced certainly aa low as ten cents per mile- *The Chaplain, Ret. Dr, MuMastxes, states that .divine services aro performedReiatoeStamitatorie*thoRefato i tunj8l‘atiiviciato : hib froi to *Ater for red X to i 0. lt;cam red.M to i Job: to t| Mr. reqt Tl read A ardcwith chan somt air. J
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Alton Weekly Courier
Alton, Illinois, US
Thu, Feb 05, 1857
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