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37 Document(s) [ Subject: Prison farms ]

Committee:

Joint State Penitentiaries and the Farm System, Investigation, Special, 50th R.S. (1947)

Title:

Report

Document type:

Report

Subjects:

Inmate health | Inmate sexual assaults | Prison farms | Prison violence | Prisons |

Library Call Number:

H.J. of Tex., 50th Leg. R.S. 3343 (1947)

Description:

[6 pages File size: 303 kb]

Charges:
1. Investigate the operation of state penitentiaries and the prison farm system. *
Committee:

House Prison System (Prison Guard Shortage), Special, 48th R.S. (1943)

Title:

Report

Document type:

Report

Subjects:

Correctional officer salaries | Correctional officer shortages | Prison escapes | Prison farms |

Library Call Number:

H.J. of Tex., 48th Leg. R.S. 1720 (1943)

Description:

[4 pages File size: 146 kb]

Charges:
1. Investigate the shortage of prison guards *
Committee:

House Inspection of Prison System, Special, 43rd R.S. (1933)

Title:

Report

Document type:

Report

Subjects:

Inmates | Prison farms | Prison labor | Prisons |

Library Call Number:

L1836.43 IN7

Description:

[12 pages File size: 630 kb]

Charges:
1. Inspect the State Prison System of Texas and report findings. *
Committee:

House Penitentiaries, 42nd R.S. (1931)

Title:

Visit Penitentiary System

Document type:

Report

Subjects:

Prison farms | Prison labor | Prisons |

Library Call Number:

H.J. of Tex., 42nd Leg., R.S., 1031 (1931)

Description:

[5 pages File size: 237 kb]

Charges:
1. Visit the penitentiary farms in South Texas and also walls at Huntsville and nearby farms. *
Committee:

Prison Centralization Commission, 41st R.S. (1929)

Title:

Report

Document type:

Report

Subjects:

Prison construction | Prison farms | Prison labor | Prisons |

Library Call Number:

P3100.8 R299 1929

Description:

[40 pages File size: 3,560 kb]

Charges:
1. Evaluate existing Texas prison system, survey available state lands and other available lands for location of a centralized system. *
Committee:

Prison Centralization Commission, 41st R.S. (1929)

Title:

Report - Governor

Document type:

Supporting document

Library Call Number:

S.J. of Tex., 41st Leg., 4th C.S. 1 (1930)

Description:

[3 pages File size: 161 kb]
Committee:

Joint Penitentiary Investigating Committee, 39th R.S. (1925)

Title:

Majority Report

Document type:

Report

Subjects:

Inmate classification | Inmate education | Inmate health | Inmate rehabilitation | Prison farms | Prison labor | Prison officials | Prison reform | Prison violence | Prisons |

Library Call Number:

H.J. of Tex., 39th Leg., R.S., 870 (1925)

Description:

[9 pages File size: 458 kb]

Charges:
1. Investigate the conduct of the State penitentiary affairs, including treatment or mistreatment of the convicts. *
Committee:

Joint Penitentiary Investigating Committee, 39th R.S. (1925)

Title:

Minority Report

Document type:

Report

Subjects:

Inmate classification | Inmate education | Inmate health | Inmate rehabilitation | Prison farms | Prison labor | Prison officials | Prison reform | Prison violence | Prisons |

Library Call Number:

H.J. of Tex., 39th Leg., R.S., 874 (1925)

Description:

[2 pages File size: 277 kb]

Charges:
1. Investigate the conduct of the State penitentiary affairs, including treatment or mistreatment of the convicts. *
Committee:

Joint Penitentiary Investigating Committee, 39th R.S. (1925)

Title:

Testimony, Transcript, and Exhibits, February 4-20, 1925; Stenographic Reports of Penitentiary Investigating Committee, Supplements to Senate Journal, February 27, March 7, 10, and 19, 1925

Document type:

Supporting document

Library Call Number:

L1836.39 P378P

Description:

[396 pages File size: 180,559 kb]
Committee:

Joint Penitentiary Relocating and Investigating Committee, Joint, 38th R.S. (1923)

Title:

Majority Report

Document type:

Report

Subjects:

Prison farms | Prisons |

Library Call Number:

S.J. of Tex., 38th Leg., R.S. 1099 (1923)

Description:

[7 pages File size: 741 kb]

Charges:
1. To visit and inspect the proposed site or sites for the relocation of the penitentiary systems and to make regular visitation of the prison that is required by the Legislature. *
2. To make proper and necessary inquiry into the affairs of the penitentiary system. *
3. To report back their findings at the earliest possible moment to the Thirty-eighth Legislature. *
Committee:

Joint Penitentiary Relocating and Investigating Committee, Joint, 38th R.S. (1923)

Title:

Minority Report

Document type:

Report

Subjects:

Prison farms | Prisons |

Library Call Number:

S.J. of Tex., 38th Leg., R.S. 1102 (1923)

Description:

[5 pages File size: 734 kb]

Charges:
1. To visit and inspect the proposed site or sites for the relocation of the penitentiary systems and to make regular visitation of the prison that is required by the Legislature. *
2. To make proper and necessary inquiry into the affairs of the penitentiary system. *
3. To report back their findings at the earliest possible moment to the Thirty-eighth Legislature. *
Committee:

Joint Penitentiary Investigating, 37th R.S. (1921)

Title:

Report - Preliminary report

Document type:

Report

Subjects:

Huntsville Unit | Inmate classification | Inmate education | Inmate health | Inmates | Prison farms | Prison labor | Prison officials | Prison violence | Prisons |

Library Call Number:

S.J. of Tex., 37th Leg., R.S. 1182 (1921)

Description:

[9 pages File size: 205 kb]

Charges:
1. Investigate conduct of the state penitentiary affairs and especially as to the treatment or mistreatment of the convicts by officers and employees of the institution.
Committee:

Joint Penitentiary Investigating, 37th R.S. (1921)

Title:

Report - Majority report

Document type:

Report

Subjects:

Huntsville Unit | Inmate classification | Inmate education | Inmate health | Inmates | Prison farms | Prison labor | Prison officials | Prison violence | Prisons |

Library Call Number:

S.J. of Tex., 37th Leg., 1st C.S. 74 (1921)

Description:

[11 pages File size: 658 kb]

Charges:
1. Investigate conduct of the state penitentiary affairs and especially as to the treatment or mistreatment of the convicts by officers and employees of the institution.
Committee:

Joint Penitentiary Investigating, 37th R.S. (1921)

Title:

Report - Minority report

Document type:

Report

Subjects:

Huntsville Unit | Inmate classification | Inmate education | Inmate health | Inmates | Prison farms | Prison labor | Prison officials | Prison violence | Prisons |

Library Call Number:

S.J. of Tex., 37th Leg., 1st C.S. 82 (1921)

Description:

[2 pages File size: 67 kb]

Charges:
1. Investigate conduct of the state penitentiary affairs and especially as to the treatment or mistreatment of the convicts by officers and employees of the institution.
Committee:

Joint Penitentiary Investigating, 37th R.S. (1921)

Title:

Report - Senate Subcommittee No. 2 report

Document type:

Supporting document

Library Call Number:

S.J. of Tex., 37th Leg., R.S. 546 (1921)

Description:

[2 pages File size: 86 kb]
Committee:

Joint Penitentiary Investigating, 37th R.S. (1921)

Title:

Report - Miscellaneous correspondence

Document type:

Supporting document

Library Call Number:

S.J. of Tex., 37th Leg., 1st C.S. 222 (1921)

Description:

[2 pages File size: 75 kb]
Committee:

Joint Penitentiary Investigating, 37th R.S. (1921)

Title:

Report - Texas Prison Association correspondence

Document type:

Supporting document

Library Call Number:

S.J. of Tex., 37th Leg., 1st C.S. 404 (1921)

Description:

[2 pages File size: 36 kb]
Committee:

Joint Blue Ridge Farm Purchase, Investigate, 36th R.S. (1919)

Title:

Report

Document type:

Report

Subjects:

Prison farms |

Library Call Number:

H.J. of Tex., 36th Leg., 2nd C.S., 154 (1919)

Description:

[54 pages File size: 3,445 kb]

Charges:
1. (1) Investigate the advisability of the Prison Commission for and on behalf of the State exercising its said option for the purchase of said Blue Ridge Farm, and report to the Legislature the increased value of said land, if any, as resulting by reason of the discovery of oil on said Blue Ridge Farm.
2. (2) Investigate the manner, circumstances, and any and all other matters connected with and relating to the execution of the original option to purchase said lands by the Prison Commission from said Bassett Blakely, and any and all other agreements, contracts, or communications, by and between representatives of the State of Texas and said Bassett Blakely relating to the same, and the attempted cancellation and release of said option.
Committee:

House Penitentiaries, Subcommittee to Visit, 36th R.S. (1919)

Title:

Majority Report

Document type:

Report

Subjects:

Executive clemency | Gubernatorial pardons | Prison farms | Prisons |

Library Call Number:

H.J. of Tex., 36th Leg., R.S. 604 (1919)

Description:

[6 pages File size: 287 kb]

Charges:
1. Visit the penitentiaries and various state farms and determine the conditions there. *
Committee:

House Penitentiaries, Subcommittee to Visit, 36th R.S. (1919)

Title:

Minority Report

Document type:

Report

Subjects:

Executive clemency | Gubernatorial pardons | Prison farms | Prisons |

Library Call Number:

H.J. of Tex., 36th Leg., R.S., 659 (1919)

Description:

[4 pages File size: 143 kb]

Charges:
1. Visit the penitentiaries and various state farms and determine the conditions there. *
Committee:

Joint Central Investigating Committee, 35th R.S. (1917)

Title:

Report

Document type:

Report

Subjects:

Agriculture, Texas Department of | Attorney General of Texas | Bachelor's degrees | Comptroller of Public Accounts, Texas | Courts | East Texas A&M University | Education Agency, Texas | General Land Office, Texas | Higher education | Highway Department, Texas State | Investment of public funds | Juvenile detention facilities | Legislative staff | Library & Archives Commission, Texas State | Office of the Governor | Prairie View A&M University | Prison farms | Prison labor | Prisons | Quarantines | Rabies | Railroad Commission of Texas | Sam Houston State University | Secretary of State, Texas | State agencies | State agency budgets | State land | State purchasing | Tarleton State University | Tax administration | Teacher training | Texas A&M University | Texas State University | Texas Woman's University | Treasury Department, Texas State | University of North Texas at Denton | University of Texas at Austin | University of Texas at El Paso | University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston | Veterinary Medical Examiners, Texas State Board of | West Texas A&M University |

Library Call Number:

L1836.35 In8r / H.J. of Tex., 35th Leg., 4th C.S. 228 (1918)

Description:

[58 pages]

Charges:
1. To make a through investigation into the affairs of all departments of the state and every state institution. *
Committee:

House Penitentiaries Subcommittee to Visit State Prison Farms, 35th R.S. (1917)

Title:

Report

Document type:

Report

Subjects:

Prison farms |

Library Call Number:

H.J. of Tex., 35th Leg., R.S. 824 (1917)

Description:

[6 pages File size: 178 kb]

Charges:
1. To visit the penitentiary and State farms of this State where the State prisoners are confined and worked, for the purpose of inquiring into the treatment, management, and control of such prisoners and the penal institutions of this State and to make a report of the same back to the House.
Committee:

House Penitentiaries Subcommittee to Visit Prison Farms, 34th R.S. (1915)

Title:

Report

Document type:

Report

Subjects:

Inmate health | Inmates | Prison farms | Prison labor |

Library Call Number:

H.J. of Tex., 34th Leg., R.S. 294 (1915)

Description:

[7 pages]

Charges:
1. Visit prison farms to investigate and provide information prior to considering a pending bill to create a new penitentiary system. *
Committee:

Senate Penitentiary Investigating Committee, 34th R.S. (1915)

Title:

Report

Document type:

Report

Subjects:

Good-conduct time | Gubernatorial pardons | Huntsville Unit | Parole | Penalties and sentences (Criminal justice) | Prison farms | Prison labor | Prison officials | Prison population | Prison violence | Prisons | Rusk State Penitentiary |

Library Call Number:

L1836.34 P938

Description:

[23 pages]

Charges:
1. Investigate business, financial, and commercial transactions of the Penitentiary system from January 1, 1913 to date.
Committee:

House Penitentiaries, 33rd R.S. (1913)

Title:

Report

Document type:

Report

Subjects:

Huntsville Unit | Inmate health | Prison farms | Prison labor | Prisons | Rusk State Penitentiary |

Library Call Number:

H.J. of Tex., 33rd Leg., R.S. 1001 (1913)

Description:

[28 pages File size: 1,904 kb]

Charges:
1. Visit the state penal institutions and investigate their conditions, management and operations. *
Committee:

House Appropriations Subcommittee on the State Penitentiaries and State Farms, 32nd R.S. (1911)

Title:

Report

Document type:

Report

Subjects:

Huntsville Unit | Inmate health | Prison farms | Prison labor | Prisons | Rusk State Penitentiary |

Library Call Number:

H.J. of Tex., 32nd Leg., R.S. 538 (1911)

Description:

[8 pages File size: 456 kb]

Charges:
1. Investigate the physical condition of the State's penal institutions, State farms, contract farms and share farms.
Committee:

Joint Penitentiaries Investigating, 31st R.S. (1909)

Title:

Part I: Final Report; Proceedings; and Audit, Examination and Methods Report

Document type:

Report

Subjects:

Huntsville Unit | Inmate health | Prison farms | Prison labor | Prison violence | Prisons | Rusk State Penitentiary |

Library Call Number:

L1836.31 P378P

Description:

[157 pages File size: 7,691 kb]

Charges:
1. Visit the Huntsville and Rusk penitentiaries and all other places as in their judgment may be necessary.
2. Make a thorough and complete examination of the financial conditions of the penitentiary system, employing such help as may be deemed necessary to the end that a full, fair, complete and exhaustive examination be made of the entire penitentiary system covering a period from January 1, 1907, or prior to that time if deemed necessary by the committee, to the present time.
3. Make an investigation of the iron industry at Rusk and make recommendations as to the future operation of such iron industry as they believe would best subserve the State's interests, and recommend whether or not such industry should be abandoned or its operation continued by the State.
4. Investigate the conditions of the penitentiary at Rusk and of all farms, camps and trains where convicts are worked or kept, as to the food, clothing, health and treatment of the convicts, and all matters pertaining to their discipline, safe keeping and reformation.
Committee:

Joint Penitentiaries Investigating, 31st R.S. (1909)

Title:

Part II: Stenographer's Report of Evidence

Document type:

Report

Subjects:

Huntsville Unit | Inmate health | Prison farms | Prison labor | Prison violence | Prisons | Rusk State Penitentiary |

Library Call Number:

L1836.31 P378P

Description:

[530 pages File size: 28,891 kb]

Charges:
1. Visit the Huntsville and Rusk penitentiaries and all other places as in their judgment may be necessary.
2. Make a thorough and complete examination of the financial conditions of the penitentiary system, employing such help as may be deemed necessary to the end that a full, fair, complete and exhaustive examination be made of the entire penitentiary system covering a period from January 1, 1907, or prior to that time if deemed necessary by the committee, to the present time.
3. Make an investigation of the iron industry at Rusk and make recommendations as to the future operation of such iron industry as they believe would best subserve the State's interests, and recommend whether or not such industry should be abandoned or its operation continued by the State.
4. Investigate the conditions of the penitentiary at Rusk and of all farms, camps and trains where convicts are worked or kept, as to the food, clothing, health and treatment of the convicts, and all matters pertaining to their discipline, safe keeping and reformation.
Committee:

Joint Penitentiaries Investigating, 31st R.S. (1909)

Title:

Part III: Subcommittee and Full Committee Reports; Index

Document type:

Report

Subjects:

Huntsville Unit | Inmate health | Prison farms | Prison labor | Prison violence | Prisons | Rusk State Penitentiary |

Library Call Number:

L1836.31 P378P

Description:

[352 pages File size: 21,182 kb]

Charges:
1. Visit the Huntsville and Rusk penitentiaries and all other places as in their judgment may be necessary.
2. Make a thorough and complete examination of the financial conditions of the penitentiary system, employing such help as may be deemed necessary to the end that a full, fair, complete and exhaustive examination be made of the entire penitentiary system covering a period from January 1, 1907, or prior to that time if deemed necessary by the committee, to the present time.
3. Make an investigation of the iron industry at Rusk and make recommendations as to the future operation of such iron industry as they believe would best subserve the State's interests, and recommend whether or not such industry should be abandoned or its operation continued by the State.
4. Investigate the conditions of the penitentiary at Rusk and of all farms, camps and trains where convicts are worked or kept, as to the food, clothing, health and treatment of the convicts, and all matters pertaining to their discipline, safe keeping and reformation.
Committee:

House Penitentiaries Subcommittee to Visit Penitentiaries, 30th R.S. (1907)

Title:

Report

Document type:

Report

Subjects:

Huntsville Unit | Prison farms | Prison labor | Prisons | Rusk State Penitentiary |

Library Call Number:

H.J. of Tex., 30th Leg., R.S. 1355 (1907)

Description:

[4 pages File size: 194 kb]

Charges:
1. Visit the State penitentiaries at Huntsville and at Rusk, all farms, State or otherwise, where State convicts are held and worked, the State reformatory at Gatesville, and the camp or detention farm for female convicts near Huntsville, Texas; the duty of said sub-committee shall be to diligently inquire into the methods of handling and treatment of convicts in all such institutions, the condition of State properties in connection therewith and all such other matters pertaining to same as may be deemed proper, and make report to this House with their recommendations upon informaiton obtained.
Committee:

Joint State Investigating, 27th R.S. (1901)

Title:

Report and Proceedings of the State Investigating Committee, Provided for in SJR 1, 27th 2nd C.S. (investigation of state government including findings and testimony of Treasury Department, General Land Office, Comptroller's Office, various asylums, and other agencies, report on penitentiaries)

Document type:

Supporting document

Library Call Number:

L1803.9 IN86 27T

Description:

[503 pages File size: 274,750 kb]
Committee:

Senate Penitentiaries, 26th R.S. (1899)

Title:

State Penitentiaries

Document type:

Report

Subjects:

Prison farms | Prisons |

Library Call Number:

S.J. of Tex., 26th Leg., R.S. (801)

Description:

[8 pages File size: 368 kb]

Charges:
1. Visit the state penitentiaries at Rusk and Huntsville, the State Reformatory, the State Farms, and as many private farms at which State convicts are employed, as said committee may deem necessary and make a report.
Committee:

House Penitentiaries and Convict Farms, Special, 25th R.S. (1897)

Title:

Report

Document type:

Report

Subjects:

Inmates with mental illness | Prison farms | Prison labor | Prisons |

Library Call Number:

H.J. of Tex., 25th Leg., R.S. 741 (1897)

Description:

[4 pages File size: 209 kb]

Charges:
1. Visit the State Penitentiaries and convict farms and make a report. *
Committee:

Senate Penitentiaries, Correction and Reformatory, 25th R.S. (1897)

Title:

Reformatory

Document type:

Report

Subjects:

Juvenile detention facilities | Juvenile justice system | Prison farms | Prisons |

Library Call Number:

S.J. of Tex., 25th Leg., R.S. 566 (1897)

Description:

[5 pages File size: 267 kb]

Charges:
1. Visit the Penitentiaries and the House of Correction and Reformatory and report the condition of the institutions with reference to the necessities for appropriation from the Legislature.
Committee:

Senate Penitentiaries, Correction and Reformatory, 25th R.S. (1897)

Title:

Penitentiaries

Document type:

Report

Subjects:

Juvenile detention facilities | Juvenile justice system | Prison farms | Prisons |

Library Call Number:

S.J. of Tex., 25th Leg., R.S. 581 (1897)

Description:

[3 pages File size: 144 kb]

Charges:
1. Visit the Penitentiaries and the House of Correction and Reformatory and report the condition of the institutions with reference to the necessities for appropriation from the Legislature.
Committee:

Joint State Penitentiaries, 20th R.S. (1887)

Title:

Visit to the State Penitentiaries

Document type:

Report

Subjects:

Prison farms | Prisons |

Library Call Number:

LRL

Description:

[28 pages File size: 1,930 kb]

Charges:
1. Visit and examine carefully the condition, management and operations of the penitentiaries, and make a report thereof to the Legislature.
Committee:

Joint Penitentiaries, 19th R.S. (1885)

Title:

Majority and Minority Reports

Document type:

Report

Subjects:

Convict lease system | Prison farms | Prison labor | Prisons |

Library Call Number:

LRL

Description:

[15 pages File size: 1,542 kb]

Charges:
1. To visit and examine carefully the condition, management and operations of the State penitentiaries, and make report therof to the Legislature, together with such suggestions and recommendations as they may deem fit and proper.

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