Warden's memorandum of prisoners, 1858-1902 (bulk 1880-1886).

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Warden's memorandum of prisoners, 1858-1902 (bulk 1880-1886).

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As the facility for male offenders sentenced to solitary imprisonment and confinement at hard labor, the State Prison maintained the series: Commitment registers ((M-Ar)289X) through the prison clerk, but also this separate alphabetical list of prisoners, made by the warden presumably for his own use and probably kept in large part because of the movement of the prison population housed in Concord (1878-1884) to the newly renovated building at Charlestown.

1 v.Copies: Partial microfilm reel ; 35 mm.

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The State Prison was opened in 1805 at Charlestown, Boston, as a successor to the prison on Castle Island. During 1878-1884 the prison was closed and inmates kept at Concord. With that exception, Charlestown remained the Massachusetts state prison until replaced by Massachusetts Correctional Institution, Walpole, 1955-1956. From the description of Minutes of the State Prison Society, 1846-1848. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 86144176 The State Prison at charlestown, Boston, ...