APPENDIX TO THE SECRETARY'S REPORT. SUMMARY OF THE PRISON POPULATION FOR 1868-9. Total number of persons remaining in confinement in the Nominal number of persons committed within the year ending September 30, 1869, 2,983 2,135 848 13,259 Average of the prison population for the years 1868-9, 3,042.75 Average for 1867-8, . Increase of the past year, 2,737.78 304.97 Comparing the past year with 1868, with respect to commitments for crime, it will appear that crimes in general have increased 15.6 per cent.; Crimes against the Person having increased 17.2 per cent., and Crimes against Public Order 24.2 per cent.; while Crimes against Property have decreased 4.6 per cent. PRISONS. Number of Sick. Number of Days Sickness. TABLE XVIII.—Sickness and Punishment among those Discharged from State, County or City Prisons, during the year ending September 30, 1869. Males. Females. Males. 100 1 1 Females. Males. Females. Whole Number of Punish ments. SICKNESS AND PUNISHMENT IN PRISONS. PRISONS. Number of Sick. Number of Days Sickness. TABLE XVIII.—Sickness and Punishment, &c.-Concluded. Number Died. Males. Females. Males. Females. No. who had No. who had No. who had No. who had Whole No. been punished been punished been punished been punished who had been more than once. twice. three times. three times. punished. 1 60 Males. Females. Males. Females. Males. Females. Whole Number of Punish ments. APPENDIX TO THE SECRETARY'S REPORT. B.-AGE, SEX, EDUCATION, ETC., OF PRISONERS. TABLE XIX.-Showing the Ages at Commitment of Persons remaining in the Minor Prisons, Sept. 30, 1869. FEMALES. MALES. 25 TO 30. 30 to 35. 35 to 40. OVER 40. TOTALS. 12 12 181 76412 119 24 2 1 475 688 ထ 128 පිය 12 18 1 195 TABLE XIX.-Showing the Ages at Commitment, &c.-Concluded. NOTE.-There are now no prisoners in the prisons at Barnstable or Edgartown, or the jails at Greenfield or Nantucket. REMARKS. The above table, stating ages of persons, is presented as some guide in determining probability of reformation, capacity for education, and Males and females under 25 are classified differently, as girls of the age of 15 and under, and boys of the age of 17 and under may be committed to the reformatories. It will be seen that of 2,385 persons confined in said prisons 1,444 were 30 years of age and under, being 60.5 per cent, of the whole. Distinguishing these by sex, of 1,569 males, 954 were 30 and under, being 60.8 per cent. of the whole number of males; and of 818 females 490 were 30 and under, being 59 per cent. of the whole number of females in prison at that date. APPENDIX TO THE SECRETARY'S REPORT. Females. Totals. Males. Females. Totals. Males. 16 64 32 219 425 3 37 187 304 121 485 456 1,569 816 2,385 73 69 214 283 |