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The Weekly Arizona Miner
Prescott, Yavapai County, Arizona
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Prison Commissioner Buffum reports 54 prisoners in Yuma prison, with crime increasing based on convict numbers. Yavapai County will add at least 12 more, totaling nearly 70. Suggests utilizing convict labor to make the prison self-sustaining, as current idleness burdens taxpayers. Treatment is good with comfortable quarters and wholesome food.
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Prison Commissioner Buffum informs us that there are now fifty-four prisoners in the Yuma boarding house provided for criminals. Crime during the last year has been on the increase if we are to take the number of convicts in Yuma prison as a basis to go by. Yavapai county will send from this term of its criminal court at least twelve more which will swell the number to nearly seventy. Good work shops should be started, convict labor utilized and the prison made self-sustaining. A large prison full of idlers, living at the expense of the tax-payers is rather an extensive luxury and one which cannot be digested readily. The treatment of prisoners at Yuma is said to be good, quarters comfortable and food wholesome, such being the case why not make the inmates work?
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Yuma
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prison population at 54, expected to reach nearly 70 with 12 more from yavapai county; suggestion to utilize convict labor for self-sustaining prison.
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Report on increasing number of prisoners in Yuma prison due to rising crime, with call for workshops and labor to reduce taxpayer burden while maintaining good treatment conditions.