Daily count ledgers, 1921-1958.

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Daily count ledgers, 1921-1958.

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Daily counts of prisoners pardoned; paroled; escaped, returned from escape; discharged; sentence commuted; returned from court; died; returned from parole; released on writs; transferred; and in irons (1929-1958).

ledgers 3 volumes.

Illinois State Archive

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Illinois. Dept. of Corrections.

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The Southern Illinois Penitentiary at Chester (authorized 1877) was overseen by a three member Board of Commissioners, appointed by the Governor to advice the warden and investiage operations. In 1889, the Illinois Asylum for Insane Criminals was authorized to be built on the penitentiary grounds under the oversight of the penitentiary commissioners. Under the Civil Administrative Code of 1917, the Southern Illinois Penitentiary was placed under the Department of Public Welfare but maintained it...