The parole officer, John M. Egan, states that “the parole system ... has already been productive of good results, and promises development that will compare favorably with the most successful reformative work of other States.... The good deportment of our indeterminately sentenced inmates, their sincere efforts to map out for themselves a future foreign to their previous lives of crime and the faithful manner in which all, save two, of the convicts who have been granted conditional freedom are complying with the provisions of their parole, is gratifying.” Of the 297 received during the year: Those who are serving sentence for the first time 221 Those known to have been previously imprisoned 76 Under thirty years of age 152 Over thirty years of age 145 ---- 297 Number apprenticed to some trade, including the unapprenticed who had worked at least four years at a trade 74 Number unapprenticed 223 ---- 297 Natives of United States 202 Foreign Born 95 ---- 297 Social Relations: Single 159 Married 114 Widowed 23 Divorced 1 ---- 297 Nature of Crimes: Against Person 172 Against Property 125 ---- 297 The gratuities to prisoners discharged in 1910 amounted to $3,195.00. This sum presumably was given in cash and clothing. The bill for provisions amounted to $63,361.00. Tobacco for the prisoners cost the State $2,471.00. The various industries in operation at the penitentiary show substantial gains: During the year the sales of mats and matting amounted to $114,475.00. The profit from this industry was $29,696.00. The profit in the hosiery department was $5,191.00.