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Rhode Island State Prison and Providence County Jail records (490)

Rhode Island State Archives

Rhode Island State Archives
337 Westminster Street
Providence, RI 02903
Tel: 401-222-2353
Fax: 401-222-3199
email: statearchives@sos.ri.gov

Additional Information

Related material: Account Bk, Joseph Clarke - General Treasurer (1761-92, C#1226 "Art Work of Providence" Annual Reports of the Board of Charities and Corrections, 1869-1915 Charities and Corrections - Papers 1903-1961, C#00524 Committee on Prison Industries Deeds - Records of the General Treasurer, Bond relative to building Gaol in Prov., C#1307 Index to Reports, C#00261, Investigation ... of the Providence Reform School - 1869 Members of Charities and Corrections (Album) 1880-9, C#00345 Newport, Commitment and Discharges, 1835-1845, C#00597 Petitions to Governor - Prisoner's Pardons, 1830-1869, C#1184 Photographs of Properties near the State Farm Prison Records - 1789-1980 Proposed Resolutions 1871 Providence Gaol Plans - 1819, C#1296 Punishments for Murder - 1905 Report ...on the Subject of Capital Punishment, 1852 Report …to Investigate the Management of the State Institutions, 1888 Report of Prisoners in the Providence County Jail, 1875, C#00078 State Inspection Reports - 1872-1874, C#1320 State Jail at Newport 1825-1833 State Jail at Newport, 1825-1833, C#00451 State Prison Photograph - Preston Coll, C#858 State Prison Reports - 1837-1870 (various), C#00490 State Prison Reports - 1871-1874, C#00490 Petition to General Assembly to Extension of Gaol Bounds in the City of Providence - 1819 State Of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations: A History Volume III, Chapter V,: The Poor, The Defective and the Criminal" pp 389-490 (1902) Fifth Annual Report of the R.I. State Prison, Commission (1874-1879) - includes maps and plans at the State Library MAP DATABASE:M-8, 1883 MAP DATABASE:M-7.2, n.d. MAP DATABASE:M-60, 1927 MAP DATABASE:M171, n.d.