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Parent Issue
Day
28
Month
July
Year
1876
Copyright
Public Domain
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The last report of the Warden and Directora of the Connecticut State Prison shows 252 convicts in that institution, of whorn 121 were roceived within the past year. Tlio nuraber last year was 236. Sixty-eight are of foreign birth. A reduction in the priee of labor of the prisoners, vrho are cngaged in cigar, slioe, wircvvork, and rule making, from sixty to forty cents a day has so f ar decreaf-ed the incorne of the prison as to leave a deficit of $2,874 T!ie more humane system of discipline introduced by Warden Hughes is maintained witL satisfactory results. - A striking com meutary upon the cruel discipline formerly in vogne there is the fact that il thirty years there has been oïüy one hanging in Oonnectient for erimo committed outside of the prison, but that p tho Bime periotl there have been fonr oX(;cittioiiH for crime perpetrated Wlthir ltê

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Old News
Michigan Argus