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Behind the Walls: Mississippi Penitentiary Inmates, 1840-1880
Behind the Walls: Mississippi Penitentiary Inmates, 1840-1880
Behind the Walls: Mississippi Penitentiary Inmates, 1840-1880
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Behind the Walls: Mississippi Penitentiary Inmates, 1840-1880

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The first Mississippi state prison opened its doors in 1840. Behind the Walls is a first attempt to identify the inmates of the first forty years. The Superintendent of the penitentiary was required to provide the governor with an official report regarding the inmates and the condition of the prison itself. The required information varied over the years, but the critical information of name, age, crime, and county where the inmate was sentenced was usually included. While the race of the individual was not given, his or her physical description was provided. For the first twenty years, 1840-1860, the prison population was primarily Caucasian, with a few free black noted. If slaves were involved in a crime, there were rarely admitted to prison, their punishment, if any, would be delivered by their owner. As valuable property, thy were a commodity too precious to be nonproductive in the fields. After the Civil War, the prison population shifted and the majority population for 1860-1880 was African American. Sources for African American names in the reconstruction period are rare so this should prove a welcome resource. The descriptive terms ranged from fair, dark, and brown to copper colored and later, to black and white. Could the many described as copper colored actually be Native American? This question should be pursued as many were sentenced from counties with large Native American residents. Additionally, the cases where the defendants were teenagers or pre-teens should also the attention of students of criminal justice. What could have caused an eleven year old to be sentenced to the state penitentiary? If an inmate's escape was found in newspaper accounts, frequently more information about his/her case was provided, such as, the name of the victim, or extenuating circumstances related to the crime. While written with the genealogists in mind, it is obvious that Behind the Walls should appeal to many genres.
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PublisherBookBaby
Release dateMay 22, 2023
ISBN9781667888606
Behind the Walls: Mississippi Penitentiary Inmates, 1840-1880
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Anne L. Webster

Anne L. Webster (formerly known as Anne S. Lipscomb) is retired director of reference services at the Mississippi Department of Archives and History. She is author of Mississippians in the Great War: Selected Letters and coauthor (with Kathleen S. Hutchison) of Tracing Your Mississippi Ancestors, both published by University Press of Mississippi. She has published two other genealogical works, along with a compilation of sermons from Jackson's Galloway Memorial United Methodist Church.

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