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Title: Mental defectives in Virginia:
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Virginia. Board of charities and corrections. (from old catalog)
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Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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ecutive order. He failed toanswer questions of comprehension which the average child of nine findseasy. For the past twenty years he has spent most of his time in jail oncharges ranging from drunkenness and disorderly conduct to vagrancy,begging, and petit larceny. And in spite of his repeated offenses, he hasbeen receiving at the hands of justice the same treatment for his mentaland moral sickness year in and year out, with no chance of cure. Figuringthe economic loss, court expenses, maintenance in jail, etc., he has cost theState at least $6000.00 already, which is a rather large doctors bill whenthere is no hope of being cured by the treatment. On a prison farm formisdemeanants or in a colony for the feeble-minded he could at least bemade self-supporting, and perhaps more, instead of a perpetual source ofexpense to the taxpayer. The Cost. Turning to the State Auditors reports, we find that the total expenseto the State of prisoners in the jail in question for maintenance and trial
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DOES JAIL LABOR PAY? The answer is on Virginia soil. The District of Columbia is saving $80,000 per annum by working jail prisoners on the farm at Occoquan, Va. Mental Defectives in Virginia 85 expenses was for the period of this study $112,141.01. After allowing forclipped sentences and the time of penitentiary, reformatory, roads andasylum prisoners, the cost of maintenance figures as follows: 298,805 days at 25.1c $75,000 00 The cost of maintaining repeaters, on a basis of the above, would be$45,000.00 for the three years in question. Fines and costs in repeaterscases for this period, assessed but not collected, amounted to $32,128.15.Just how much of this is the States loss and how much the citys loss, is,under the present system of distributing fines, hard to arrive at, but it isapparent that the taxpayer has lost all of it. Granting that the economic value of prisoners is 50 cents a day overand above their own support (at the lowest estimate) the taxpayers ofVirginia have lost o

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