A study of prison conditions in North Carolina
By: issued by the State Board of Charities and Public Welfare
Contributors: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project); University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library
Edition: Electronic ed.
Publisher: Academic Affairs Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Chapel Hill, N.C.]
Language: eng
Subjects: Prisons; Government policy; Prison administration; Prison discipline; Prisoners; Chain gangs; Evaluation; Law and legislation; Punishment in crime deterrence
Other titles: Bulletin of the North Carolina State Board of Charities and Public Welfare.; The North Carolina experience, beginnings to 1940.
Description: A study of North Carolina's prison conditions due to concern for treating and curing the causes of crime in the state, and the prisoners' health and well being. Complaints include prison employees' ignorance of or disregard for laws currently in place, negligence in health care, sanitation, and privacy, as well as inhumane punishment such as flogging or solitary confinement in dungeons.  Includes tables identifying the prison demographics and a list of recommendations such as new legislation, funds, improved health care, education, better overall treatment of prisoners and placing members of the State Board of Charities and Public Welfare on the State Prison's board of governors.
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Transcribed from: A study of prison conditions in North Carolina / issued by the State Board of Charities and Public Welfare, Mrs. Kate Burr Johnson, Commissioner. 25 p. ; 23 cm. Originally published in: The Bulletin of the North Carolina State Board of Charities and Public Welfare, v. 6 no. 1, January-March 1923. Cover title.

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Table of contents: title: Origin and purposes of the Citizens' Committee of One Hundred on Prison Legislation; title: County jails; title: County chain-gangs; title: A social study of jail population; title: Recommendations for prison legislation.