Director's correspondence concerning the Hawes-Cooper Act, 1926-1933.

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Director's correspondence concerning the Hawes-Cooper Act, 1926-1933.

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The Hawes-Cooper Act, passed by the U.S. Congress in January 1929, prohibited the interstate commerce of prison-made or -mined products. Alabama Board of Administration Director William Feagan and Associate Member Hamp Draper actively worked for the repeal of Hawes-Cooper and for the passage of laws by the states to minimize or circumvent provisions of the Act. The series includes correspondence, questionnaires, and pamphlets from corrections officials in other states, newspaper clippings pertaining to Hawes-Cooper and other laws, samples of cloth produced in prison textile mills and used in prison uniforms, and reports of visits by Alabama prison officials to prison facilities in other states. The report of the visit to North Carolina contains photographs of a road camp.

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Alabama Department of Archives and History

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Sources: Acts of Alabama. In 1919 the Legislature abolished the State Board of Inspectors of Convicts and transferred the powers and authority of that body to the State Board of Control and Economy (SBCE). Likewise the duties of State Prison Inspector were placed under the jurisdiction of the SBCE. The duties of the President of the Board of Inspectors of Convicts were exercised by the state Warden General, appointed by the governor for a four-year term and s...

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