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Report On Jackson Prison

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Parent Issue
Day
9
Month
July
Year
1897
Copyright
Public Domain
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Lansing, Mich., July 6. - "Warden Charnberlain of the state prison at Jackson has submitted to Governor Pingree his report for the fiscal year ending June 30. It shows that the average number of men in prison during that period was SI 7. The number in prison at the beginning of the year was 824; received by sentence, 261; escapes returned, 1; return ed f rom the asylum for dangerous and criminal insane, 2; paroled convicts returned, 2; total receipts, 1,090. The number discharged at expiration of sentence, 186; escaped, 1; discharged by order of the supreme court, 2; new trials granted, 2; transferred to the asylum for dangerous and criminal insane, 13; transferred to the Detroit house of correction, 1; pardoned, 17; paroled, 13; total departures f rom prison, 247. Total number in prison at the close of the year, 843.

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Subjects
Ann Arbor Argus
Old News