Inventory of tools, fixtures, and property, 1898.

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Inventory of tools, fixtures, and property, 1898.

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This inventory documents the number of chair pieces manufactured by prison labor within the penitentiary. Recorded are chair style numbers, type of wood used, and cost of labor.

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Kentucky Department of Libraries and Archives, Kentucky State Archives

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Kentucky State Penitentiary (Frankfort, Ky.)

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Legislation establishing a penal system in Kentucky was passed in 1798, and by 1800, the first prison west of the Allegheny Mountains, the Kentucky State Penitentiary, was completed on a one-acre tract of land in Frankfort. As early 1825, the penitentiary and the labor of its inmates were leased to private individuals in return for a percentage of the profits from prison labor, a practice that was not abolished until 1880. Convict labor, however, continued to be contracted out until...