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Iowa and Prison Labor

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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Oct 20, 1887

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 13, No. 40.

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Iowa and Prison Labor

Something must be done for Iowa. Why? Because since the prohibition amendment was adopted, the supply of convicts for the penitentiary is diminishing, and the contractors of prison labor at Fort Madison are much embarrassed; they don't know how to fill their contracts. There's nothing like an unlimited supply of whisky to keep State prisons full, and to make prison labor contractors happy.