Annual report of the Board of Directors and of the Superintendent of the state's prison
Subtitle: for the year ending December 31, 1894
By: North Carolina Penitentiary
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: 2003
Place of publication: Chapel Hill, N.C.]
Language: eng
Subjects: Finance; Prisoners; Statistics; Prisons; Institutional care; Work release of prisoners; Juvenile corrections; North Carolina Penitentiary
Other titles: The North Carolina experience, beginnings to 1940.
Description: The 1894 Annual Report opens with a list of members of the Board of Directors, officers and prison employees, followed by reports of the Superintendent, the Warden and the Physician. It provides financial data, including reasons for the budget deficit, farm production statistics, and inventories. While discussing inmate conditions, the superintendent expresses the need for a separate reformatory for juvenile criminals to prevent their constant exposure to long-term hardened criminals. What follows is detailed information on inmates such as length of term and reason for conviction, diseases and operations, and other personal data. Prisoners went to farms and camps to work (Caledonia Farm, Northampton Farm and Dyke, Halifax Farm, Castle Hayne Farm and Mine, Great Falls Canal, and Rocky Mount Camp). Individual reports from each farm include statements about each location giving production, inventory, and inmate information.
Notes: Title from electronic title page (viewed April 7, 2003)

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Transcribed from: Annual report of the Board of Directors and of the Superintendent of the state's prison : for the year ending December 31, 1894 / North Carolina Penitentiary. Raleigh, [N.C.] : Josephus Daniels, State Printer and Binder ; Presses of Edwards & Broughton, 1895. 76 p. ; 22 cm. Signed at end by A. Leazar, Superintendent of the State's Prison, and J.J. Bernard, Clerk State Penitentiary, on January 4, 1895.

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