Download or read book Tennessee State Penitentiary written by Yoshie Lewis and Brian Allison and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2014 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Tennessee grew into a modern state, it found itself increasingly beset by crime. In 1831, the legislature approved the construction of the first penitentiary. The pen world was violent and dark, with several major riots, fires, and escape attempts throughout the years. However, the prison also gave birth to a culture of creativity born from despair, with entertainment shows often featuring the biggest names in country music sharing the stage with inmate bands. The best-known pen, "the Castle," has become a familiar icon to filmgoers, being used in productions like The Last Castle and The Green Mile. Today, the building sits abandoned, facing an uncertain future.
Download or read book Presidents Kings and Convicts written by Bob Clement and published by Archway Publishing. This book was released on 2016-10-20 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a colorful youth growing up in the governors mansion, to a distinguished military career, and seeing firsthand the politics of world events during the second half of the twentieth century, Presidents, Kings, and Convicts tells the story of Congressman Bob Clements multifaceted life, and it reveals many previously untold stories about famous people. This memoir narrates the shaping of his life as a moderate Democrat growing up in the south in the 1950s; it shares how Clement had a front-row seat to some of Americas most significant events since World War II; it provides insights on the current crisis situations taking place in the Middle East and around the world; and it addresses the dysfunction and lack of bipartisanship among the nations political leaders, as well as offers solutions for getting the country back on track. Presidents, Kings, and Convicts provides entertaining and captivating behind-the-scenes accounts of some of Clements most memorable events and the people who shaped them. From personal stories of country music stars and other notable Americans, to the bipartisan meeting with the exiled king of Afghanistan and leaders of the Northern Alliance at the kings home outside Rome, Italy, Clement offers insight into his event-filled life and his storied political journey.
Download or read book Tennessee Convicts written by Charles A. Sherrill and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report of the Condition of the Tennessee Penitentiary written by Tennessee State Penitentiary and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tennessee Convicts Early Records of the State Penitentiary 1850 1870 written by Charles Sherrill and published by Tennessee Convicts. This book was released on 2018-04-09 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 3,000 entries from 1850 with crimes listed from petty theft to murder. Includes personal details of convicts (also family/birth information). This second volume of Tennessee Convicts includes records of more than 3,000 inmates in the Tennessee State Penitentiary from 1850 through 1870. During this period the prison saw many changes, most notably the influx of military prisoners during the Civil War and a dramatic increase in African-American incarcerations in the years after the war. These records are excellent resources for the historian and genealogist. Despite their surface uniformity, these entries speak volumes about the history of the period. The fact that nearly every prisoner was pardoned by Reconstruction Governor William G. Brownlow, including, for example, Ned Dow, a "colored" prisoner from Weakley County convicted of rape in 1866, explains in part why Browniow was so despised by the former Confederates of the state. The imprisonment of Confederate guerillas such as Lincoln County physician John Woods, and of disobedient Union soldiers like William Conklin of the l0th Ohio, reflects the difficulties of the times. Prison officials rarely entered personal comments into the record, but occasionally appear to have been compelled to put their opinions on paper. For example, the entry describing R.H. Treadway, a printer convicted of petit larceny, includes this note: "Carried to this end like a great many others from a life of dissipation, visiting houses of ill fame and other similar places (groceries, gambling, saloons)." The larcenous habits of James Tilton earned him this remark: "Fifth sentence, and should he live he may come the sixth time.... He is naturally prone to steal." Most of this information was abstracted from ledgers 86 and 87 of the Tennessee State Penitentiary records (Record Group 25) at the State Library and Archives in Nashville. Volume 87 is arranged in a tabular format, giving basic information about each prisoner including name, age, place of birth, date received, county from which committed, crime, sentence, and discharge information. Volume 86 is in freehand and, although repeating much of the same information, also often includes notes about the prisoner's family and a physical description (the latter not included in this abstract). Because these manuscript records begin to be very sketchy during the Civil War period and contain many gaps thereafter, the published reports of the Penitentiary which were submitted to the Tennessee General Assembly were culled for information about prisoners from 1865-1870. The amount of detail about each prisoner provided in these published reports varies from year to year, but in general resembles that found in ledger 87. These reports may all be found at the Library and Archives, bound with the House and Senate Journals. Underlining has been added to confirm peculiar spellings, and [brackets] indicate text supplied by the transcriber, with question marks added where the original was unclear.
Download or read book A New South Rebellion written by Karin A. Shapiro and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2017-11-01 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1891, thousands of Tennessee miners rose up against the use of convict labor by the state's coal companies, eventually engulfing five mountain communities in a rebellion against government authority. Propelled by the insurgent sensibilities of Populism and Gilded Age unionism, the miners initially sought to abolish the convict lease system through legal challenges and legislative lobbying. When nonviolent tactics failed to achieve reform, the predominantly white miners repeatedly seized control of the stockades and expelled the mostly black convicts from the mining districts. Insurrection hastened the demise of convict leasing in Tennessee, though at the cost of greatly weakening organized labor in the state's coal regions. Exhaustively researched and vividly written, A New South Rebellion brings to life the hopes that rural southerners invested in industrialization and the political tensions that could result when their aspirations were not met. Karin Shapiro skillfully analyzes the place of convict labor in southern economic development, the contested meanings of citizenship in late-nineteenth-century America, the weaknesses of Populist-era reform politics, and the fluidity of race relations during the early years of Jim Crow.
Download or read book Tennesseans and Their History written by Paul H. Bergeron and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The authors introduce readers to famous personalities such as Andrew Jackson and Austin Peay, but they also tell stories of ordinary people and their lives to show how they are an integral part of the state's history. Sidebars throughout the book highlight events and people of particular interest, and reading lists at the end of chapters provide readers with avenues for further exploration."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book The Delinquent written by and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tennessee Convicts 1850 1870 written by Charles A. Sherrill and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Tennessee written by Nancy Capace and published by Somerset Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 673 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Encyclopedia of Tennessee contains detailed information on States: Symbols and Designations, Geography, Archaeology, State History, Local History on individual cities, towns and counties, Chronology of Historic Events in the State, Profiles of Governors, Political Directory, State Constitution, Bibliography of books about the state and an Index.
Download or read book An Encyclopedia of East Tennessee written by Jim Stokely and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compilation of 255 brief articles on East Tennessee people, places, institutions, events, and other subjects, from James Agee to Alvin York, including country music, Ford Loudoun, and the Scopes trial.
Download or read book Biennial Report of the Board of Prison Commissioners of the State of Tennessee to written by Tennessee. Board of Prison Commissioners and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 802 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tennessee Convicts written by Charles a. Sherrill and published by . This book was released on 2015-02-06 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The records of the Tennessee State Penitentiary can be viewed in two ways. A casual approach reveals a body of historical records of fascinating and valuable detail. But on closer reflection, the misery and evil reflected in the records will send a chill down the spine of the imaginative reader. Most people shrink from thinking much about prisons. But the process of dealing with crime and criminals in 19th-century Tennessee resulted in the creation of a huge body of records. They range from the minutes and case files of the local courts to the records of gubernatorial pardons. For both the historian and the genealogist, these records are well worth investigating. The purpose of this book is to provide both historical and genealogical information based on the earliest records of the Tennessee State Penitentiary. The impetus for the work came from the discovery of several ledgers maintained by the Keeper of the Penitentiary, who kept a careful record of each prisoner. These records, housed at the Tennessee State Library and Archives, provide fascinating glimpses into the identities of the inmates of the Penitentiary during its first two decades. The world these records represent can never be completely understood by modern minds, but a study of the laws providing for punishment and of the rules and procedures of the Penitentiary helps shed some light on them. Over 3,000 entries through 1850 with crimes listed from petty theft to murder, and include personal details of convicts (also family/birth information), when available. Following is a typical entry for most convicts: Name: James W. Grey, age 50, born in Tennessee, occupation: farmer. Convicted of fellony [sic] by a court in Knox County, and sentenced to 3 years in the Penitentiary. Received July 24, 1839 and discharged July 14, 1842. Notes: pardoned by Gov. Jones, Number in ledger 86: 409.
Download or read book Tennessee Convicts written by Charles A. Sherrill and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Twice the Work of Free Labor written by Alexander C. Lichtenstein and published by Verso. This book was released on 1996-01-17 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twice the Work of Free Labor is both a study of penal labor in the southern United States, and a revisionist analysis of the political economy of the South after the Civil War.
Download or read book Reports from States written by National Conference on Social Welfare. Committee on Reports from States and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Proceedings written by National Conference on Social Welfare and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
