The penitentiary and inmates are leased to Joel Scott in return for a percentage of the profits from prison labor. Scott adds chair making, shoe making, cooperage, wagon making, sleigh making, and weaving to prison industries. Two thirds of inmates are employed making rope from hemp. Lessees maintain control of the penitentiary for the next 55 years. Eight solitary confinement cells are built.
Lashing remains the primary punishment.
A recaptured escapee might receive 70 to 80 lashes. Legislature directs that one sermon be preached to the prisoners by a minister of the gospel on each Sabbath followed by 4 hours of reading, writing, and arithmetic for illiterate prisoners. All but two inmates have cholera. Twenty percent of the inmates die. 1834 Population of the penitentiary is 90 prisoners.