The cost of maintenance for the year 1910 is reported as $99,296.70, and the following is presented as “Account With Convicts for 1910”:
Balance to credit of convicts January 1, 1910 $11,644 96 Sent in by relatives and friends 20,798 33 Brought in by convicts on reception 1,013 81 Earned by over work 13,084 88 Allowance 426 00 Profit and loss 1 39 Paid to convicts on discharge $5,939 61 Sundry goods, shoes, etc. 3,564 09 Paid relatives and friends 19,249 22 Paid for tobacco, tooth brushes, soap, etc. 6,554 32 Balance due convicts January 1, 1911 11,662 13 ---------- ---------- $46,969 37 $46,969 37
REVIEW OF THE BIENNIAL REPORT OF THE INSPECTORS OF THE STATE PENITENTIARY FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA FOR THE YEARS 1910-1911.
This report is contained in a pamphlet of one hundred and sixteen pages, of which about twenty pages are devoted to a historical account of the institution.
It appears that the first buildings were completed November 22, 1827, and on the supposition that very soon after prisoners were received at the institution, its penal history covers more than eighty-three years.
The statistics show that on January 1, 1910, the number of convicts was 1,261.
Received during the year 1910 297 Discharged during the year 1910 502 Population December 31, 1910 1,056 Showing a decrease of 205
Of the 1,056 prisoners there at the beginning of 1911, there were:
White Males 845 White Females 20 Colored Males 185 Colored Females 6
Those who were discharged may be classified:
Pardoned by the Governor 5 Expiration of Sentence 10 Commutation of Sentence 448 Transferred to Insane Asylum 8 Order of President (United States Prisoner) 1 Paroled 26 Died 4 ---- 502
The parole officer, John M. Egan, states that “the parole system ... has already been productive of good results, and promises development that will compare favorably with the most successful reformative work of other States.... The good deportment of our indeterminately sentenced inmates, their sincere efforts to map out for themselves a future foreign to their previous lives of crime and the faithful manner in which all, save two, of the convicts who have been granted conditional freedom are complying with the provisions of their parole, is gratifying.”