Department of Correction, 1800-1974.

ArchivalResource

Connecticut. Dept. of Correction. Department of Correction, 1800-1974.

Department of Correction, 1800-1974.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/71257627

The General Assembly established the Department of Correction in 1967. Prior to that year, the state's major correctional facilities at Somers, Enfield, and Niantic, and the earlier ones at Newgate and Wethersfield, existed as independent state agencies, administered by a board of directors appointed by the governor. The new department brought together all youth and adult correctional institutions and parole into a single agency. Connecticut was the first state to consolidate these services. The materials in this record group pertain mostly to the Wethersfield State Prison (1827-1963) and include correspondence, financial records, warrants of commitment, prison discharges, architectural drawings, and inmate records, 1900-53. The collection contains a few records pertaining to Connecticut's first prison at Newgate.

1,285 cubic ft.

Connecticut State Library, CSL