Cash received for prisoners books, 1895-1901.

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Cash received for prisoners books, 1895-1901.

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These books are statements of prisoners' financial accounts. Information includes prisoner name and number, amounts of money received and from whom, amounts of money withdrawn from fund for purchasing personal items at the prisoner commissary, identifications of purchase, and dates of transactions.

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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...

Kentucky State Penitentiary (Frankfort, Ky.). Prisoner's Fund.

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