Que.; Dorchester, N.B.; Stony Mountain, Man., and New Westminster, B.C. The total number of persons confined in these five penitentiaries on the 30th June, 1895, was 1,277, of whom 1,249 were males and 28 were females.

1421. By three-year periods, since 1881, the following is the average of convicts in the penitentiaries :

There was an increase of 58 in the number of male convicts and a decrease of 4 in the number of female convicts, making a total increase of 54 as compared with 1894.

1422. Considered in relation to the growth of population, the following table shows that in every group of 3,981 persons one was in the penitentiary in 1895. This is a considerably smaller proportion than the average of the period 1881-95, which is one convict to every 3,976 persons.

1423. The following tables give the number of convicts remaining in each of the penitentiaries on the 30th June of each year, the number discharged in each year, and the causes :

*Includes the number of convicts sent to asylums, transferred to other penitentiaries and reformatories, removed by order of the court and remission of sentences.

*Includes the number of convicts sent to asylums, transferred to other penitentiar

and reformatories, removed by order of the court and remission of sentences. 1424. The following table gives the offences for which persons

were com

mitted to the several penitentiaries for each year, from 1881 to 1895, both

years inclusive :—

242

222

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1425. Analysis shows the following proportions of the several classes of crime for which the convicts were sent to the penitentiary:—

Taking these convicts as an index, in a general way, it appears that offences against the person have decreased, that those against property and forgery have increased, and that other felonies and misdemeanours are on the increase.

1426. The succeeding tables relate to the birth places of the convicts, their ethnology, conjugal state, occupations and educational status :—

PERCENTAGES OF BIRTH PLACES OF CONVICTS COMMITTED TO THE PENITENTIARY.

1427. In proportion to their numbers, those horn in the United States supply by far the largest quota to the penitentiaries. The large number of "All Others" in the 1883-85 and the 1886-88 periods is probably due to foreign railway navvies, then in the country, building the Canadian Pacific Railway.

1428. With respect to youthful convicts, the table relating to ages shows that in the 1883-85 period 175 per cent of the convicts committed to the penitentiaries were under 20 years of age; in the 1886-88 period, 15-6 per cent; in the 1889-91, 146 per cent, and in the 1892-94, 13 per cent were under 20 years of age.