Twenty Ninth Annual Report Of The State Commission Of Prisons For The Year 1923

Author : New York State Commission of Prisons
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781396060649
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (66 download)

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Download or read book Twenty-Fifth Annual Report of the State Commission of Prisons written by New York State Commission of Prisons and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-09-09 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Twenty-Fifth Annual Report of the State Commission of Prisons: For the Year 1919 The construction Of the new prison at Wingdale in Dutchess county and the reconstruction Of Sing Sing Prison is being carried forward under the supervision of the Superintendent Of State Pris ons. The Commission on New Prisons which had this work in charge was legislated out of Office by chapter 524 Of the Laws of 1919 which authorized and directed the Superintendent Of State Prisons to proceed with the construction Of the new farm and industrial prison at Wingdale and the construction Of the new buildings at Sing Sing, plans for which had been approved ?by the Commission on New Prisons. So far as practical the Superintendent was authorized to employ prison labor in this work, and to transfer to the Wingdale site, men from any prison. For prisoners employed on the construction of the new build ings at Sing Sing a charge not exceeding ten cents per day per man for additional maintenance was authorized. The law be came effective on May 9th. It is the expectation Of those in charge Of the work at Wing dale to so far progress it as to make it possible to care for at least 200 inmates sometime during the summer Of 1920. The power house has been completed and three other buildings are under way. The cell block building has been roofed in and about fifty per cent. Of the partition work completed. The brick walls of the mess hall are up and the interlocking building is above the first story. Between 70 and 100 prisoners from Sing Sing Prison were employed at Wingdale during the year in the preliminary con struction work, the quarry and cultivating the farm site. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.