Biennial Report Of The States Prison Raleigh N C 1925 1926 Classic Reprint PDF Download

Excerpt from Biennial Report of the State's Prison, Raleigh, N. C: 1927-1928 This institution was founded by an act of the General Assembly, ratified the 12th day April, A.D., 1869, entitled "An Act To Provide For The Erection Of A Penitentiary." Reference is made to the act cited, and also to the Report of the Commission to erect a Penitentiary, Document Number 18, Legislative Documents, 1868-70. The Prison building is a magnificent brick structure, erected upon granite foundation. The Prison wall is of granite, and is twenty feet in height and six feet broad at the top, and its base is said to extend sixteen feet below the surface. The building and wall are estimated to have cost the State more than a million and a quarter dollars. The institution is situated about one mile west of the Capitol on the extension of Morgan street and near Hillsboro road. The affairs of the Prison are administered by a board of seven directors appointed by the Governor. Two farms and fifteen camps are operated. The Caledonia farm in Halifax County for white prisoners contains 6573 acres of which 5250 are under cultivation. The Camp Polk farm in Wake County for youthful white prisoners under twenty years of age contains 2535 acres of which 1100 are in cultivation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.