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Rh Nebraska, Colorado, and Nevada commit them to hard labor in jail. The ten states of New Hampshire, North Carolina, Florida, Mississippi, Arkansas, Indiana, Montana, Idaho, Utah, and California commit them to jail, but no provision requiring them to be employed has been found. Whether or not they are employed there depends upon the practice in the several institutions.

In Pennsylvania tramps are to be committed to hard labor with solitary confinement. Wisconsin and Iowa provide short terms in jail with solitary confinement for shorter terms at hard labor. Arkansas still prescribes the "bread and water diet" for half of a sentence of from thirty to ninety days.

But little need be said concerning the length of sentence. Usually the maximum sentence is fixed. In some cases a minimum is also fixed. The one noticeable feature about the length of sentence is that it is quite long in the North and East and gradually becomes shorter as we move south and west. But this is only one instance of the greater strictness of the law in the North and East a fact so obvious from the details already given that attention need not be called to it.

As has already been stated, commitment is for a definite term the sentence is "determinate." When the sentence has