Register of ex-servicemen, 1931-1939.

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Register of ex-servicemen, 1931-1939.

Register shows the daily count of ex-servicemen inmates by race; and includes date; daily totals; prisoners paroled; escaped; released on writs; present; received from courts, parole and writs; died; and returned from escape counts. Beginning in August 1934, the register quit recording prisoners out on or returned from writs and began to show transfer statistics. Monthly recapitulations show intake and discharge by race for the Spanish-American War, World War One, and peacetime service.

ledger 1 volume.

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Illinois State Archive

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Illinois. Dept. of Corrections.

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Illinois State Penitentiary. Menard Branch.

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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...