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III. CONSTITUTION AND ADMINISTRATION OF SWEDEN.
of sentence is deducted. Those sentenced to penal servitude for a term
exceeding four years or for life shall be kept in cellular confinement
the first three years of their servitude, when one-third of the time
spent in separation is deducted from the time of sentence in the cases
where a definite term exceeding four years has been fixed.
When the law of 1892 was promulgated, a sufficient number of cells had
already been provided to meet the increased demand. After the rebuilding and
extension of several prisons and the erection of a new »Län» prison in Stockholm have
been finished, there are at present three central prisons intended for men sentenced
to a term exceeding two years, viz. at Långholmen near Stockholm with 200
day- and 300 night-cells, in Malmö with 137 day- and 284 night-cells, and at
Nya Varfvet near Gothenburg with 210 day-cells (forty separate workshops
included) and 116 night-cells. There is, besides, one central prison for women in
Gothenburg with 6 day- and 60 night-cells, intended for prisoners who already
(in certain »län» prisons) have been kept in cells during three years. The total
number of cells at the central prisons are thus 1,313, of which 760 are
night-cells. — Sentences of two years and less are worked off in 24 Län prisons and
20 State jails with a total number of 2,439 day-cells.
At the close of the year 1900 there were in the prisons above mentioned
2,450 prisoners, of whom 1,623 were sentenced to penal servitude. Of the
latter, 146 were sentenced for life, 615 to penal servitude for more than two
years, and 862 to two years or less. Of the two first-mentioned categories, 24
and 486 respectively were kept in solitary confinement in accordance with the
law of 1892. — Of the three categories respectively, 43, 76, and 85, or together
04 were women.
Of the rest, or 827 prisoners, 275 were awaiting trial, 257 were sentenced
to simple imprisonment, 273 sentenced to imprisonment in default of payment
of fines, and 22 lodged in jail for vagrancy or mendicity. The number of women
were respectively 21, 12, 12. and 5, or altogether 50.
For those sentenced for vagrancy or mendicity or those sentenced to
compulsory work by the poor-law, there are four central workhouses, viz. at
Svartsjö (337 night-cells) for men who have not before been sentenced to penal servitude;
and in Karlskrona (300 night-cells) for able-bodied men, who before have been
sentenced to penal servitude. For women, who before have been centenced to
penal seritude or are from the city of Stockholm, there is a compulsory
workhouse in Norrköping with 156 night-cells. Women belonging to other places
than Stockholm and sentenced for vagrancy and who have not before been held
to penal servitude, are sent to Landskrona (108 night-cells). The whole
number of night-cells in the central workhouses were 901. In 1900, the whole
number of prisoners held to penal servitude was 810; of these 213 were women.
The total number of prisoners of different categories kept in prisons and penal
workhouses were on an average for the year 1900: 2,988, or 5’84 on each ten
thousand of the population. During earlier periods the corresponding numbers were:
jn Moan Aver, number Per 10.000
population. of prisoners. inhab.
1861/70 ................................ 4,079,000 5,392 13 22
1871/80 ................................ 4,387,000 4,681 10 67
1881/90 ................................. 4,673,000 3,954 846
1891/95 ................................. 4,832,000 3,290 6-81
1896/00 ................................. 5,032,000 2,991 5 94
In 1900 ................................. 5,117,000 2,988 5 84
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