Minutes of the State Prison Society, 1846-1848.

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Minutes of the State Prison Society, 1846-1848.

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As the facility for male offenders sentenced to solitary imprisonment and confinement at hard labor, the State Prison beginning in 1846 sponsored for inmates the Massachusetts State Prison Society for Moral Improvement and Mutual Aid. The warden, chaplain, and clerk of the prison were officers of the society; inmate members subscribed to bylaws, including a pledge to total abstinence from alcohol once released from prison. Minutes, kept by the clerk, record the activities of the society until 1848; further history, if any, is unknown.

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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, ...