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-Ximiber of Convict* received at the Virginia Penitentiary during the Fiscal
years as shown.
White
White
Colored
Colored
Males.
Females.
Males.
Females.
44
4
231
25
43
0
181
22
31
2
166
16
47
0
196
22
67
2
269
38
67
5
285
50
87
3
322
32
65
5
235
15
48
3
183
25
74
1
163
22
44
1
166
22
97
1
212
20
63
3
182
20
76
1
252
25
62
3
256
19
99
1
234
23
75
4
252
25
'82
1 2
266
22
1,171
41
4,051
443
41
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443
Total white, 1,212 Total colored, 4,494
White 1,212
Aggregate, 5,706
From this it appears that in 18 years the total white convicts
amounted to 1,212, the total colored to 4,594, being \an aggregate of
5,706; of which 21 per cent, are whites and 79 per cent, negroes,*
or a ratio of 1 white to 4 colored men and 1 white to 10 colored
women; and calculating on the basis of the census of 1880, 1
white criminal to 13,082 population, and 1 colored to 1,958, or about
seven times as much crime committed by negroes as by whites.f
* In Mississippi, " the proportion of white and colored penitentiary con¬
victs is 12 per cent, whites to 87 per cent, negroes," one white to every 4,480
and one negro to every 1,075 of population.—H. S. Fulkerson, in Vicksburg
Hr-rald, of March 28, 1889. In the Alabama penitentiary 7.39 per cent, of the
convicts are white ; 92.60 per cent, are negroes. Over 72 per cent, of the ne¬
gro convicts are 30 years old and under, and therefore they have grown up, or
been born in freedom, and are presumed to have had the advantage of an ed¬
ucation. Of the 55 men convicted of crimes against women, 49 are negroes,
and 40 of them under 30 years of age.—Birmingham Age-Herald, Aug. 2d,
1889.
t It is noteworthy that there has been an immense increase in the crime of
forgery since negroes have been taught to write. My friend, Judge S. B. Witt,
of the Hustings Court of Richmond city, to whom I applied for the facts, in¬
forms me that "before the war there was scarcely a case of forgery on the
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1S72.
1873.
1874.
1873.
1876. .
1S77.
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1879.
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