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The Lincoln County Herald
Troy, Lincoln County, Missouri
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Recent report on Missouri Penitentiary operations: 837 inmates at work, strict discipline, no natural deaths in seven months, activities of notable prisoners like Kroeger writing a book and others in labor, projections of 2,000 prisoners in five years, and recidivism cases.
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A correspondent of the Missouri Democrat furnishes the following interesting items concerning the doings in the state prison recently:
The penitentiary force is now pretty well organized. The guards and employees are on strict discipline. A mounted force holds the outside on the lines of work, being armed with good weapons. The number now in the institution is eight hundred and thirty-seven-the largest number ever known inside the prison walls. All are kept at work except those in the hospital. There has not been a natural death within seven months. There are only fifteen or twenty chronics in the hospital.
Kroeger is writing a book at odd hours entitled "Five Years in the Missouri Penitentiary."
Susisky is picking wool in the woolen factory.
Biebush, Reno, Burke and other notorious characters are at good, healthy labor.
Spahr is hall tender.
Reports come from all directions saying that our jails are overflowing, and from estimates made by the officers of the prisons, there will be within five years 2,000 prisoners in the Missouri penitentiary.
Two prisoners whose time expired about two weeks ago, went out and commenced stealing, and were returned here last Tuesday-one for nine and the other for eleven years. It has been found out that the penitentiary is a very good place for reformation. Several will go out this month under the commutation law.
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Missouri Penitentiary
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Recently
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no natural deaths within seven months; two recidivists returned for nine and eleven years; several to be released this month under commutation law.
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The penitentiary has 837 inmates, the largest number ever, all at work except hospital patients; strict discipline with armed mounted guards; notable inmates engaged in writing, wool picking, labor, and hall tending; jails overflowing with estimates of 2,000 prisoners in five years; penitentiary seen as place for reformation.