They ought to inspect incoming letters.
Those who enter a plea of guilty may be sentenced any month in the year, and hence the number of those detained for trial is greatly reduced.
They have long discontinued the fee system, the food by contract costing the county daily for each prisoner 8.62 cents. The workers eat at a table, and the warden wishes he had tables for the entire population. They bake their own bread.
On account of the additional number doing good work for the county we have raised our estimate from 59 per cent. to 65 per cent.
CHESTER COUNTY.
We are pleased to report that new and satisfactory sanitary appliances have been installed.
A sufficient amount of provisions is supplied and care is taken in the preparation of the food. What is surprising, when we take into consideration the greater cost of food, is that the cost per diem for each prisoner in 1916 was 11 cents as against 12.3 cents the year before.
All the inmates are kept at work. The industries are carpet weaving and chair-caning. They paid for materials $3,431 and received $5,387.
The authorities are willing to allow some of the men to work on farms but there is no county farm, or land belonging to the county, which is available. Grade raised to 77 per cent.
DAUPHIN COUNTY.