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This digital collection exhibits several documents charting the emergence of the Auburn Prison System. In the early to mid- 19th Century, US criminal justice was undergoing massive reform. The state prisons which had emerged out of earlier reform efforts were becoming increasingly crowded, diseased, and dangerous.
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Prison Association of New York. Memorial of the Prison...
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They Were in Prison: A History of the Pennsylvania Prison...
- Bibliography
When Progressive Era reformers confronted abuses in the Texas prison system, they had to contend with an overwhelming profit motive that made reform difficult, and warped reform measures they managed to push through the legislature. Among the initial goals of Texas prison reformers were an end to convict leasing and a ban on the use of the whip ...
When Progressive Era reformers confronted abuses in the Texas prison system, they had to contend with an overwhelming profit motive that made reform difficult, and warped reform measures they managed to push through the legislature.
The Texas Department of Corrections and its predecessors recorded personal data and commitment information about convicts entering the Texas prison system at Rusk Penitentiary and Huntsville Penitentiary in these ledgers dating 1849-1976.
23 Ιουλ 2019 · A state penitentiary would take criminals out of their communities and require them to reflect on their lives, work hard to pay their debts to society—and emerge reformed. Texas had operated a state prison (forever dubbed “The Walls”) for only a decade before the state was caught up in the cataclysm of the Civil War.
At least 900 people were murdered in Texas during 1869-70, almost 200 more than second-place Louisiana. Violent criminals were packed in with petty offenders and the young. A third of all prisoners were under 21 years of age, and the youngest was only seven.
3 Νοε 2022 · The Texas State Library and Archives Commission (TSLAC) holds 29 ledgers covering the years 1849-1954, with 10 indexes for the period 1849-1970. TSLAC also has Conduct Registers for inmates entering the system during the period 1855 through 1945. Notations to those entries continued into the 1970s.
