Monterey County (Calif.). Sheriff's Office.

The Jail Register, Monterey County, 1850-1872, provides a unique window on Monterey County and on Monterey, the county seat, during the period of transition to American law and government. This historical record also offers evidence of the method and conduct of law enforcement in Monterey during a sometimes turbulent and violent time of social and economic transformation.

The Register clearly documents who was prosecuted and for what actions they were jailed (and sometimes hanged). More than six hundred inmates are recorded. Some "broke jail." And, in a few instances, citizen's broke into the jail to hang an inmate..

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