TABLE 7.-KIND, QUANTITY, AND VALUE OF ARTICLES PRODUCED, BY SYSTEM UNDER WHICH PRODUCED-Continued State prisons-Continued Miscellaneous. Harness.. Highway markers. Land improvement. Laundry, commercial. TABLE 7.-KIND, QUANTITY, AND VALUE OF ARTICLES PRODUCED, BY SYSTEM UNDER WHICH PRODUCED-Continued Federal prisons-Continued Part 2. County and City Jails IN October 1932 at about the same time that agents were sent to Federal and State penal institutions, the Bureau of Labor Statistics mailed questionnaires to each of the 3,072 counties in the United States, and to each of the 92 cities having a population of 100,000 or over, asking for information concerning prison labor in county and city jails. Reports were received from 2,721, or 88.6 percent, of the total number of counties in the United States. The counties reporting contain 93.2 percent of the total population of the United States. Replies were received from all counties in the States of California, Connecticut, Delaware, Massachusetts, Michigan, Nevada, North Dakota, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Vermont, Washington, and Wyoming. The questionnaire asked for data as of the time of receipt of the form. Many counties reported as of October 1932, others for dates in November and December 1932, and still others for January or February 1933. Table 8 shows the number of prisoners under sentence in county jails in the United States, reported as employed, by States and by type of work performed by the prisoners. TABLE 8.-NUMBER OF PRISONERS UNDER SENTENCE IN COUNTY JAILS IN THE UNITED STATES REPORTED AS EMPLOYED, 1932-33, BY STATES AND TYPE OF WORK |