021/01. State Prison Commission
Found in 17 Collections and/or Records:
Prisons - State Prison Commission - Board of Inspectors Reports
Prisons - State Prison Commission - Book of Convicts At Pitts Camp and Stanley's Camp
Prisons - State Prison Commission - Convicts At Individual Camps Registers
Prisons - State Prison Commission - Convicts In Prison Camp Hospitals Weekly Registers
Prisons - State Prison Commission - Convicts Monthly Reports
These monthly reports by the lessees of convicts to the Prison Commission give the name of the camp and the contractor, followed by an alphabetical listing of the convicts including: (1) race, (2) age, (3) crime, (4) county of conviction, (5) length of sentence, (6) date received and discharged, and (7) remarks (the latter usually left blank). The reports were put into binders by the Prison Commission.
Prisons - State Prison Commission - Convicts Punished Monthly Reports
These monthly reports give the name and location of the camp and the month at the top of the page. For each convict punished is indicated the name, date, cause or offense, and extent of the punishment. See RGSGSERIES 21-1-11 for similar material.
Prisons - State Prison Commission - Corporal Punishment Monthly Reports
Prisons - State Prison Commission - Employees Time Books
The entries in these books are arranged by month. For each month, the names and job titles of the guards and other employees are listed, showing for each day of the month whether or not the employee worked and the total salary paid him for the month.
Prisons - State Prison Commission - Governor's Pardons and Commutations Orders
Prisons - State Prison Commission - Leased Convicts Account Book
This book, apparently kept by the Principal Keeper, records the amount due the State by lessees for the hire of convicts. Each lessee's convicts are listed for given periods of time showing the amount due the State for each convict. At the end of each list is the total due and often a statement of when the account was sent to the State Comptroller General for collection.
Prisons - State Prison Commission - Misc. Records
Prisons - State Prison Commission - Misdemeanor Chain Gangs Monthly Reports
Prisons - State Prison Commission - Principal Keeper's Annual Reports
Prisons - State Prison Commission - Prison Commission's Penitentiary Reports
Prisons - State Prison Commission - Rations and Clothing Daily Records
Seven of these volumes give for each day the number of prisoners at the camps and a daily accounting of the quantity of various items of food, clothing, tobacco, soap, kerosene oil and similar items furnished to them. The incluÂsive dates vary from book to book. The information is arranged by camp (with one to three camps in each volume) and then by date.