Receives men from 18 to 35; if guilty of crime more than three times,
cannot be sent here. The training-school is very much like Elmira, N.
Y. After they become proficient in these schools, they pass into the
industrial department and are employed at various kinds of productive
labor. Sloyd system work is very prominent, forenoons spent in the
trades schools, and afternoons in the shops. Prisoners alternate, so
that both shops and industrial training-schools are in full operation
all of the day.
Products of the shops are furnished other State institutions. They
manufacture cotton and woolen goods (having a $35,000 plant of
machinery). All weaving is done by hand-looms, made in the institution.
There are over twenty industries and the institution uses all the money
it earns.
The average convict’s stay is fifteen months, yet it is possible he
may work out in a year, and he may be kept two years if convicted for
a felony. About half the prisoners remain full time for which they are
committed. They have 300 acres of land, and twenty acres are inside
the prison walls, 1022 cells; prisoners go out on good records made in
school and shop.