Punishment books, 1854-1956.

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Punishment books, 1854-1956.

As the facility for male offenders sentenced to solitary imprisonment and confinement at hard labor, the State Prison maintained punishment logbooks to detail infractions of prison rules by inmates and resulting punishments. Confinement registers were kept as additional source of information from 1911, recording names of all inmates actually confined as punishment on a given date.

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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, ...