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Should this increase of 2,359 prisoners in 3 years, or on the average 7,58 p.c. yearly, be allowed lo continue unchecked, the Swedish county- and town-prisons would in the course of 1848 receive 20,589 persons, which shows that the number of prisoners would, in 13 years, be nearly doubled.
If we compare the number of prisoners with that of the inhabitants of Sweden, we find the following proportion:
Inhabitants. Prisoners.
In 1835 — 3,025,439. — 10,368 which makes 1 in 291. = 0,34 p.c.
— 1838 — 3,100,439. — 12,727 — — 1 — 243. = 0,41 —
- 1848 — 3,345,439. — 20,589 — — 1 — 162. = 0,02 —
The increase of population is taken at 25,000 annually, which, when the statements of the Table- commission for the last 20 years are compared, is probably a correct average.
Hence we learn, that when the population increases only 0,83 p.c. but the number of prisoners (according to the experience of the three years above mentioned) 7,58 p.c. yearly, the latter increase in a proportion, which is about 9 times greater than that of the population.
Within the capital, especially, this state of
things appears indeed melancholy in the highest
degree; for if we compare the population (82,625
inhabitants) with the number of prisoners, we find:
In 1835 — 2,611 prisoners, or 1 in 31,65.
— 1836 — 3,135 — — 1 — 26,36.
— 1837 — 4,285 — — 1 — 19,29.
— 1838 — 5,404 — — 1 — 15,29.
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