Jail Inspection

The inspectora of jails for Washtenaw county viited the county jail on Monday and made a thorough inspectien of the buildings and examined the records for the six months preceding the exsmination. The board consista of J. Willard Kabbitt, judge of probate ; D. B. Greene, county agent of the state board of corrections and charities; and Elisha Loomis, E. P. Mason and C. H. Kempf, county superintendents of the poor. They found the building in good condition, exoepting that the cellar is not properly draiced. They a!so found that no special room is provided for prisoners arrested under a civil process, as is required by law. There are eight persons now confined in jail, five serving sentence and and three awaiting tria'. Prisoners await ing trial have been held in jail 32 days, three days and two days, respectively. The record of the jail shows that during the past six months '209 prisoners have been confined in the county jail. The offenses charged against the prisouers confined during that time were as follows: Drunk and disorderly, 51; assault, 2; aseault and battery, 6; disorderly, 10 males and 2 females; larceny 14; drunk, 98 males and 2 females; larceny trom the person, 4 ; vagrancy, 7 ; recaiving stolen properly, 2; insane, 1; beffgiag, 2; forgery, 1; burglnry, 2 ; keeping house of ill-fame, 3 females; threat, 1 ; bastardy, 1. Total, 202 male9 and 7 females. The inspectora recommended that the cellar be tiled and the bottom cemented. They also recommended thst special rooms be assigned prisoners confiued on civil proces?.