Eastern Penitentiary, population 1,371 Caning chairs 16 Cigarmaking 11 Shoemaking 42 Knitting hosiery 38 ----- 107 Absolutely idle 839 Western Penitentiary, population 720 Broommaking 10 Brushmaking 2 Weaving 18 ----- 30 Absolutely idle 393 Huntingdon Reformatory, population 579 Auto-tagmaking 32 Whether considered as a relief from the crushing burden of expense that our penal establishments entail, or as a remedy for the physical and moral degeneration resulting from enforced idleness, or as a means to equip the inmates for lives of industry and usefulness after their release, a system of prison labor which produces the results set forth in these figures stands self condemned. To make the plan embodied in the law of 1915 effective, it should further provide: (1) That municipalities as well as the Commonwealth and the political divisions thereof and all public institutions shall be required, as far as may be practicable, to supply their needs from the labor of the penal and correctional institutions; (2) That the authority of the Commission or of any body in which its powers may be vested shall extend to the reformatory institutions at Darlington, Glen Mills, Morganza and Muncy and to all State, county and municipal institutions of a penal or correctional character; (3) That the power of such Commission or body to regulate prison industry be extended to all forms of labor activity of the inmates of such institutions, including farming, roadmaking, land reclamation, forestry, etc.; (4) That such Commission or body be empowered to determine the compensation of prisoners for industrial and other work performed by them and the method of applying such compensation to the use of such prisoners or their dependents; (5) That the strict “State use” plan be modified by permitting the sale in the open market, at not less than the market price, of any surplus product resulting from the labor of the inmates over and above the product disposed of as provided in the act. V. THE COUNTY PRISONS.