North Carolina State Prison (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781531697815)

North Carolina's State Prison was typical of American prisons in the 19th century, but with an important difference. North Carolina put most of its inmates outside prison walls to work on road camps and prison farms for the purpose of getting useful work out of them. Opened in 1870, the prison in Raleigh housed only a fraction of the prisoners. Those inmates were for the most part too old, too sick, or too feeble to handle anything other than light institutional work details. This book explores all three components of North Carolina's early prison system, including its use of prison chain gangs, and clarifies how a penitentiary differs from a reformatory, correctional institution, or community-based facility.

Author: William G. Hinkle, Gregory S. Taylor
ISBN-10: 153169781X
ISBN-13: 9781531697815
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing Library Editions
Language: English
Published: 02/29/2016
Pages: 130
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.91lbs
Size: 9.61h x 6.69w x 0.38d