Prison Labor: With Tables Showing the Proportion of Convict to Citizen Labor, in the Prisons of the State of New York, and of the United States (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Prison Labor: With Tables Showing the Proportion of Convict to Citizen Labor, in the Prisons of the State of New York, and of the United States

On contract 47 3-10 cts. Per day. On public account 32 9-10 cts. Per day. On piece-price 23 6-10 cts. Per day.

The returns under the last two are by no means complete, and under the piece-price system, the work is to a large extent per formed by children who labor but a portion of the day.

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.