Joint Committee to Investigate the StatePenitentiary System proceedings 1925

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Joint Committee to Investigate the StatePenitentiary System proceedings 1925

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The Texas Joint Committee toInvestigate the State Penitentiary System was created in 1925 by Senate ConcurrentResolution 13 (39th Texas Legislature, Regular Session) and charged withinvestigating reports of graft and waste in the prison system finances and of brutaltreatment of prisoners. Records of the committee consist of five volumes oftranscripts of testimony, dating 1925.

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