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Convict Labor and Insane Paupers

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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Apr 8, 1889

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 15, No. 14.

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Convict Labor and Insane Paupers

A YEAR or so ago the labor unions of New York succeeded in getting a law enacted in that State forbidding the employment of convict labor. The result is that the prisons have become a heavy burden to the tax payers, and not only so, but they are beginning to turn out insane paupers. In one of the prisons two young men have gone insane and been sent to the hospital, and others are sure to follow.