Marquette-Genesee-Wayne County MI Archives News.....MARQUETTE PRISON CROWDED TO LIMIT November 24, 1919
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IRONWOOD DAILY GLOBE November 24, 1919
MARQUETTE PRISON CROWDED TO LIMIT

RECENT ARRIVALS MAKE IT NECESSARY TO HAVE MORE BEDS IN CORRIDORS

Marquette, Mich. - Four prisoners were brought into the branch prison 
yesterday to serve sentences ranging from one to fifteen years.  Steve Risat, 
of Detroit, recommended for ten years.  Charles Austin and LeRoy Rogus, of 
Genesee county, fifteen years for robbery, and Jack Robinson, ten years for 
robbery and Frank Paterson, three years for burglary, are the new inmates.  
The arrival of these men swells the total number of prisoners to 398, it’s 
within nineteen the greatest number ever entered in the institution.  There 
are now eight-six more prisoners than cells.  The sending of prisoners to any 
prison in the state is optional with the judge passing sentence, and prisoners 
are sometimes permitted to express a preference.


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