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Indiana State Sentinel
Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana
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Warden Miller of Jeffersonville Penitentiary visited the city yesterday and reported improving sanitary conditions despite sickness among prisoners. The facility houses 230 convicts, including 15 females, engaged in profitable mechanical work like tobacco manufacturing, spokes, boots, and barrels, aiming to become self-sustaining and boost state resources.
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of the Jeffersonville Penitentiary, was in the city
yesterday. He reports that there has been a
good deal of sickness among the prisoners, but
that the sanitary condition of the prison is improving.
There are now two hundred and thirty
convicts in this reformatory institution, fifteen of
whom are females. All are profitably engaged
in mechanical employments, and there is demand
for more. The manufacture of tobacco is
now a leading employment. One contractor
employs some fifty hands, with the privilege of
increasing it to a hundred. The other hands are
engaged in the manufacture of spokes, hubs,
shafts and felloes, boots and shoes, chairs and
barrels. Mr. Miller hopes to report that the
prison South is not only a self sustaining institution,
but that it will become an auxiliary in
swelling the resources of the State
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Primary Location
Jeffersonville
Event Date
Yesterday
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improving sanitary conditions despite sickness; 230 convicts profitably employed, demand for more labor
Event Details
Warden Miller reports on prison conditions: sickness but improving sanitation; 230 convicts (15 females) engaged in mechanical work including tobacco manufacture (50 hands, expandable to 100), spokes, hubs, shafts, felloes, boots, shoes, chairs, barrels; aims for self-sustaining institution aiding state resources