NEW-YORK STATE PRISONS. Prison at Auburn, Cayuga County. Levi Lewis, Agent and Keeper. Henry Tift, Clerk. The erection of this prison was commenced in 1316. It is well situated, and occupies a plot of ground forming a square, five hundred feet in length, each way, enclosed with a boundary wall, two thousand feet in extent, thirty feet high, and four feet thick at the base. A small river or creek runs along the south side of the boundary, and sufficient power from the stream is obtained by means of a water wheel and shaft through the wall to work the machinery within the prison. The prison buildings stand back about eighty feet from the road and form three sides of a square, the front part being about two hundred and eighty feet long; each of the return wings is two hundred and forty feet long and forty-five feet in depth. The earnings and profits of the prison during the year ending 30th September, 1835, have been as follows: Branches of Business. Comb makers.. Tool makers.... Shoe makers....... Cotton weavers. Cabinet makers. Carpet weavers. Clock makers. (The above are employed by contractors.) Stone cutters.. ..$4,226 82 Blacksmiths.. 547 23 .$49,844 27 Amount of earnings and profits of prison.... The expenditures during the same period, for the ordinary expenses of the prison, under the head of general support and repairs, have been as follows: In addition to the expenditures as above stated, there has been expended for buildings and machinery, building store-house, and improving grounds in new yard, reeled silk, sheriff's fees, materials for building new shops and wood sheds, &c, $5,656 11. Number of convicts, December 31st, 1834. .649 228 877 Mount Pleasant State Prison, Westchester County. Robert Wiltse, Agent and Keeper. John Sing, Clerk. This prison is situated on the east bank of the Hudson river, in the village of Sing Sing, town of Mount Pleasant, twenty-five miles north of the city of New-York, and contains 1,000 cells, all reported by the inspectors to have been in excellent order in December, 1835. It stands on a bed of marble, the working of which affords constant employment for a portion of the prisoners. During the last year an addition of one hundred and fifty feet in length has been made to the shops, which are one story and a half high, and contain 23,605 cubic feet of solid stone masonary, all done by the convicts. Had this work been done at regular wages of free labourers it is estimated that the expense would not have been less than $4,721. Pursuant to the provisions of an act of the legislature, passed May 1835, the inspectors have caused about eleven acres of the state farm to be enclosed by a substantial wall, and the soil to be planted with about 450 Mulberry trees of approved variety. These trees when planted were about three years old. * Number of Convicts, 30th September, 1835. Remaining in prison 30th Sept., 1834.. Discharged during same period, by expiration of sentence.. Do do by pardon.... Died..... Escaped... .843 .213 1056 .176 51 31 2 260 .796 Unemployed, or at work for state. Masons, barrow-men, and labourers on prison buildings........ 33 .25 Carpenters ......7 98 Tailors and shoemakers, making 491 and mending prisoners' clothing..23 .12 Weavers, spoolers, &c. do. do..17 .29 Invalids picking wool in hatters .48 shop.... ........10 25 Blacksmiths, &c., on repairs......14 .42 Labourers in front and coopers' yard.... ..16 10 89 .52 Waiters in prison hall and hospital.13 .53 Sick in hospital.. shop...142 Ox drivers, 3, working road, 3......6 Cooks, and bakers, and washers in kitchen...... 639 Total.... FINANCES. ..8 157 639 .796 Receipts. From blacksmith and lock shop, for labour and materials furnished, $5,407 23 *The female convicts are confined and supported at the expense of the state, by a contract made with the corporation of the city of New-York, at the Penitentiary at Bellevue, in that city. Expenses in 1835, $2,226 99. It is believed that in the course of the next year, so much of the female prison will be completed as to justify the removal of the female prisoners from Belle vue. Receipts during the year 1835, including a balance on hand, $44,768 34 Expenditure for that year..... Cash paid, balance due on purchase of Soria & Co's. farm.... ..$12,681 00 5,500 00 Dividends of some of the Monied Institutions In the cities of New-York and Brooklyn, for the last six months, ending December, January and February. |