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PeNITENTI ABIES.

Number at the com-
mencem't of the year.

Number at the close
of the year.

J 1 Average number dur-
! j ing the year.

; j Increase. j

I | Diminution.

| Received during the
| year.

Discharged by expi-
ration of sentence.

Pardoned.

Died.

; | Escaped. I

> | Removed to Insane
;
1 Asylum.

] | Became insane. |

Earnings.

Expenses.

1

| Excess of earnings.

Deficiency of earn-
ings.

Average earnings of 1
each prisoner. j

Average expense of
each prisoner.

Salary of officers.

General or incidental
expenses.

Clothing and bed-
ding.

[ Provision.

1

Repairs and im-
provements.

!

Fuel and lights

Discharged prisoners. J

62

349

28

76

440

37

69

391

33

14

91

9

33

221

23

10

108

3

8

10

11

1

3

6,107

45,816

709

6,251

45,261

3,917

555

144

'*3*207

88

116

21

89

116

118

2,093

17,307

1,300

396

5,297

505

5,746

134

2,438

11,661

1,003

73

1,099

56

743

"*294

6

3

1

421

117

177

609

124

672

78

185

299

147

732

114

694

71

210

299

162

670

119

683

94

188

299

123

'22

'25

a 498
304
39
228
29
122
150

472
n 133
38
q 153
28
82
118

b 3
22
5
15
3
10
31

2

9

3

p 17
3
5
1

9,810

68,483

12,119

72,521

3,165

18,927

11,950

10,261

56,165

25,344

65,884

10,930

13,474

17,339

12,347
6,636
fi*5*,45‘2

450
£24,723
*7,764
i *5*388

60

102

101

106

42

97

37

62
83
m212
96
147
e 68
57

*28*8*28

15,943

33,958

3,126

7,388

p 4,284
5,317
2,772
8,860
984
1,145

661
3,022
755
4,670
r 800
/2,359

4,791

18,249

3,776

27,660

2,920

7,094

357

15,440

12,349

16,474

1,200

#3,406

''3*181

1,937

1,466

1,200

1,601

i,*0*42

259

959

700

274

4

3

1

1

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Sing Sing, (Fern.)....

New Jersey...........

Philadelphia New Pen.

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46

57

51

11

27

15

1

1,515

10,561

9,045

29

7,452

s 522

372

1,513

130

109

131

3,008

119

22

317

47

50

21

k 2

2

2

i6,700

16,968

89

142

8,411

1,365

1,085

20,109

2,970

84,075

2,191

52,645

711

11,133

94

<8

2,738

2,878

1,724

1,181

120

49

15

15

5

261,822

282,355

24,960

50,721

1,190

125,806

30,942

3,996

* Fron

a Of the whole number received, 359 were males and 139 fe-
males ; of those in Prison, October 31, 1850, 99 were males.

h Discharged by court and magistrates, 19; discharged by pay-
ment of fines, 32; of those who died in Albany Penitentiary, 2;
the whole number died of delirium tremens.

c This amount is supposed to include salary of officers, fuel,
and lights.

d This balance in favor of the earnings above expenses does
not include the salaries of the officers among the expenses, which
amounted to $7,388 ; showing a deficit of earnings, if the salaries
of officers be included, of $1,935, instead of a balance.in favor of
$5,452.

e This average is made on a bill of expenses not including the
salary of officers.

Rev. Louis Dwight's Annual Report of the Prison Discipline
f Including furniture.

g This amount is not included among the expenses of the insti-
tution in the Annual Report, but is paid from the state treasury.

h The maladies of two others became unequivocally developed,
who were thought, in the latter months of 1849, to exhibit symp-
toms of incipient insanity
; but the physician says they owed their
origin to the previous year, although their diseases were not suffi-
ciently manifest to justify their return.

i This balance of expense against the institution is over and
above the salary of the officers.

j It nowhere appears in the Annual Report of the institution
what amount was paid for salary of officers, or for particular items
of expenditure.
k One by reversal of judgment.

Society.

1 This amount was drawn from the state treasury, and was in
part expended for repairs and improvements.

m This average expense of eacli prisoner is after deducting re-
pairs and improvements.

71 Two were removed to Western House of Refuge, and three
discharged by habeas corpus, and for new trial.

0 Three were returned as not insane ; 19 remain in the Prison ;
but it is not stated when and where they became insane.

p Two others were drowned, and one other was accidentally
killed.

q Seventeen were transferred to Auburn, and removed by ha-
beas corpus.

r This sum includes furniture as well as clothing.

s $8.49 more are charged as having been lost on broom making.


STATISTICAL TABLE OF TWENTY PENITENTIARIES IN 1851.*




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