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| Penology in Kansas, | F. W. Blackmar |
| Bibliography of Municipal Government | |
| in the United States, | F. H. Hodder |
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Journal Publishing House
Lawrence, Kansas
1893
Kansas University Quarterly.
Vol. I.APRIL, 1893.No. 4.
BY F. W. BLACKMAR.
The Kansas State Penitentiary at Lansing hasbeen noted as one of the best prisons in the far west. And indeed insome particular features it is quite remarkable. Among its especiallygood qualities, as compared with other prisons of similar nature, areits financial and economic management and its thorough discipline.Its financial management shows it to be practically a self-supportinginstitution. The institution has been fortunate in securing goodmanagement and in the utilization of the labor of the prisoners, bymeans of the contract system of labor, as well as in performing nearlyall of the work in connection with repairs, improvements, etc. Butespecially has it been fortunate in its location immediately above arich vein of coal, so that a shaft could be sunk within the prisonwalls for the working of the mine. (See figure 4.)
The mine has thus been made to yield a handsome income for the benefitof the State. The running expenses of the penitentiary for the biennialperiod of 1891 and 1892 were $297,409.47, while the receipts fromcontract labor, coal sales and other sources were $215,190.35. Thusmaking an expenditure over and above cash receipts of $81,939.94.But if it be considered, as it ought to be, that coal to the valueof $4,420.78 was furnished the western sufferers, and that coal tothe value of $42,533.68 was furnished to State institutions by theprison management, and also that $50,106.46 were spent in permanentimprovement,...