Special Report On Prison Labor PDF Download

Excerpt from Special Report on Prison Labor, 1911 The following report on Prison Labor covering the calendar year 1910, based on data obtained and compiled by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, is in conformity with the requirements of Sections 2244 and 2245, of the General Code of Ohio Laws. The institutions enumerated are: The Ohio Penitentiary; Mans field Reformatory; Boys' Industrial School, Lancaster; Girls' Industrial Home, Delaware; Cincinnati Workhouse; Cleveland House of Corree tion; Cleveland Boys' Home; Columbus Workhouse; Toledo House of Correction; Dayton Workhouse; Stark County Workhouse, Canton; Zanesville Workhouse and the Xenia Workhouse; comprising in all, four state, three county and six city institutions. The total number of inmates were of which were males and 773 were females. The number employed by the state and counties were by contractors, unemployed for sundry causes, 325. The labor of the prisons is divided into three systems; the contract system under which the labor of inmates is contracted for at a given price per day; the piece price system, under which the institution is paid an agreed price per piece for the finished product; the public account system, under which the convicts or inmates are worked exclusively for the state. The number employed under the contract system was under the piece price system, 32, and under the public account system, 768. The number engaged in manufacture was in agriculture, 496. And in miscellaneous work, The number of establishments contracting for Prison Labor is 12 with an average duration of four years and eight months per contract. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.