The first grade received fifteen cents per day and the third grade
five cents per day, and no pay was forfeited for violation of prison
rules and regulations, but prisoners received no pay during the time
they were on bread and water. Corporals received fifty per cent. more
pay than privates, and sergeants and company clerks one hundred per
cent. more. Prisoners were required to work eight hours each day,
Sundays excepted-commencing at eight a. m., with one hour for dinner,
and ending at five p. m., and to attend night school from six p. m.
until eight p. m. five nights in the week, and once a week musicians and
singers visited the prison and gave entertainments.
The company quarters were only one-story high, but were large and well
ventilated, being eighty feet square with wide verandas and furnished
with steam and hot water pipes for cold weather, and lighted throughout
by incandescent lamps.
The beds were all singly arranged in rows and well furnished with
mattresses, blankets, sheets and pillows, and the room had nine large
wash basins at one end of the room, where all the company could wash
their hands and faces and comb their hair.
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