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PRISON SYSTEM.
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the whole number 2 315, there were 2 162 men and 153 women. Out of those
under penal servitude 125 were between 15 and 20 years old.
For those sentenced for vagrancy or mendicity or to compulsory work by the
poor-law, there are four penal workhouses, two for men, viz. at Svartsjö and in
Karlskrona each with room for 300 and two for women: in Norrköping for
about 150. and Landskrona, 100; compulsory labour is done in common, but
the nights are passed in solitary confinement. At the beginning of 1914, there
were 492 male and 186 female prisoners in workhouses, doing compulsory labour,
with 37 and 6 respectively charged with vagrancy or mendicity, retained for
examination and sentence.
Photo. Hakiiy Lindbohm, Gothenburg.
Central Prison, Härianda.
The total number of prisoners of different categories kept in prisons and
penal workhouses was at the beginning to 1914. 2 993, or 5’3i on each ten
thousand oi the population. During earlier periods the corresponding figures
were:
. II Mean Aver, number Per 10 000
population of prisoners inhab.
1861—1870 ........ 4 079 233 o 392 13 22
1871—1880 ........ 4 386 953 4 681 1067
1881—1890 ........ 4 673 225 3 954 8-46
1891—1895 ........ 4 831814 3 290 681
1896—1900 ........ 5 032 074 3 171 6’30
1901—1905 ........ 5214349 3132 6 01
1906-1910 ........ 5405891 2933 5’43
At the beginning of 1914 . 5 638 583 2 993 5-31
The great decrease in the number of prisoners depends, no doubt, to a
certain extent, on a decrease of crime, witnessed by the figures quoted. In large
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