mates are compelled to cook, wash and sleep within the
walls, because there is no other place within the institution
for them. The second story (third floor) is divided into nine
rooms, 10 by 20 feet, and ten cells 9 by 4 feet each. The
cells are occupied by one person each, and the remaining
nine rooms are occupied by seventy-eight human beings, who
are crowded together like brutes, in damp rooms, with little
or no ventilation, and the close and foetid atmosphere of the
place was almost stifling to us as we entered the premises from
the outside.

The fourth story is used for Hospital purposes, this being
the only building within the enclosure which could be used
for the purpose. Upon, the same floor is a Hospital Kitchen,
and sleeping apartments wherein are nightly confined sixty-
nine persons, twenty-one of the beds being crowded together
in the passage-ways of the building.

It will be found by the above detailed statement, that there
are with in this "old building," which was condemned
years ago, and was for many years shut up, and not used.
Two hundred and forty-three prisoners, of which number eighty-
six are females, confined in the basement. In this connect-
tion, the efficient Warden in reponse to a request from the
committee, for detailed information, says: "The female por-
tion I am ashamed to allude to, bat circumstances compel me
to use it, as it is being used. It is in a most deplorable con-
dition, and is a disgrace to the State. The capacity of the
basement is sufficient for about 30 prisoners, yet I am com-
pelled to crowd into its narrow limits, 86 female convicts, and
in case of any epidemic breaking out, with the accommoda-
tions at my command, I should dread the fearful result, for
although I am provided with an attentive, vigilant and able
Physician, whom I place every confidence in, I fear that med-
ical skill could not control the fearful inroads of any such
contagious disease, as has already visited the City Jail build-
ing. I certainly think, ia justice to- the prisoners, in justice
to those having charge of the Institution and in justice to the
cause of humanity, a speedy and effective remedy should at
once be applied."

THE CHAPEL DORMITORY.

Finding it impossible to furnish accommodations of any kind
for the rapid increase of prisoners arriving, the Board of Di-
rectors "at the suggestion of the Physician, converted the for-
mer Chapel into a Dormitory, whereby temporary accommo-
dation is afforded for 128 prisoners. Those occupying it are
did men and boys, (short term prisoners,) all negroes. By
this arrangement, they were afforded sleeping apartments,
but some place being required for them. to eat in, a.