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The Daily Dispatch: March 12, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 2 (search)
fy the criminal law of the State as to change the mode of punishment for minor felonies, or those sentenced for short terms of imprisonment, even the most active measures that can be adopted will scarcely relieve the pressing necessities of the prison during the approaching summer. "Of the 389 convicts remaining on the 1st day of October last, 198 were sentenced for terms of five years and upwards, and for the last three years nearly 37 1/2 per cent. of the number received were sentenced for the like terms. These long sentences produce an accumulation of convicts in the prison, which, in the course of five or six years, would alone amount to the number now in the prison. But the rate of increase during the last three years has been at the rate of 43 per annum, while that of the last fifteen months has been at the rate of 72 per annum — so that under the present system, it may be safely estimated that in December, 1865, there will be no less than 550 convicts in this prison."