Reports and correspondence from the State Prison, Charlestown, 1806-1851.

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Reports and correspondence from the State Prison, Charlestown, 1806-1851.

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The State Prison at Charlestown housed offenders sentenced to solitary imprisonment and confinement at hard labor. From its beginnings the governor and council played an overall advisory role in prison management; reports and correspondence were directed to them by prison officials and prison project commissions and subsequently collected by the state secretary for reference.

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