The Senate of the 44th General Assembly elects a special committee to investigate the different systems in operation in this and other States and particularly New York, Ohio, and Illinois, with the object of presenting recommendations, facts and figures which will aid in solving the problem of leasing convict labor and utilizing the labor of the convicts of this State. It is claimed that the present system of leasing convicts is detrimental to the best interests of the State, its manufacturing industries and its great army of working people.

Under a resolution adopted by both Houses, to investigate the values of convict labor under the contract system and its relation to free labor ...

Excerpt from Report of the Joint Special Committee on Contract Convict Labor, 1880 The inspectors who manage the State Penitentiary are five in number, appointed by the judges of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania for two years. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.