The Importance of Prison Labor

More than 12 million dollars worth of working men's shirts and overalls is produced annually in this country by prison labor. The enormous profits thus wrung from convicts labor are a constant incentive to the contractors to exact from their unhappy victims tasks altogether beyond their strength, and to punish them cruelly when their o does not come up to the excessive demands made. Another word on the condemnation of convicts to tasks at which they cannot hope to make a living after release. Indiana, like other states, professes to be training the inmates of her reformatory to occupations by which they will be able to make their living when released. She actually sets them to work making chains, shirts and bro