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4 Document(s) [ Subject: Convict lease system ]

Committee:	Joint Penitentiary System, Special
Title:	Report
Library Catalog Title:	Report and findings of Penitentiary Investigating Committee
Subjects:	Convict lease system | Prison labor | Prisons |
Library Call Number:	L1836.33 P378
Session:	33rd R.S. (1913)
Online version:	View report [432 pages  File size: 29,390 kb]
Charges:	This report should address the charges below.
1.	Investigate the financial record and financial transactions, and the general business conduct of the penitentiary system as far back as said committee, in its discretion, may deem advisable.
2.	Make a report to the Governor, recommending such changes or reforms in the financial conduct of the penitentiary system as they may deem advisable, and shall report, in full, to the Governor all valuable pertinent information which they may be able to obtain with reference to the financial conduct of said penitentiary system.
Committee:	Joint Penitentiaries
Title:	Majority and Minority Reports
Library Catalog Title:	[Report].
Subjects:	Convict lease system | Prison farms | Prison labor | Prisons |
Library Call Number:	LRL
Session:	19th R.S. (1885)
Online version:	View report [15 pages  File size: 1,542 kb]
Charge:	This report should address the charge below.
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.
Committee:	Joint Penitentiaries, Subcommittee on
Title:	State Penitentiaries
Library Catalog Title:	[Report].
Subjects:	Convict lease system | Prison escapes | Prison security | Prisons |
Library Call Number:
Session:	16th R.S. (1879)
Online version:	View report [16 pages  File size: 933 kb]
Charge:	This report should address the charge below.
1.	Visit the state penitentiary at Huntsville, and carefully examine into the condition and management of the same, and to visit the penitentiary at Rusk and carefuly examine into the character and capacity of the buildings just completed at that place and make recommendations touching both of said penitentiaries as they may deem expedient.
Committee:	House Penitentiary
Title:	Consideration of the penal system and the penitentiary lease
Library Catalog Title:	[Report].
Subjects:	Convict lease system | Inmate health | Inmates | Prison escapes | Prison labor | Prison population | Prisons |
Library Call Number:	H.J. of Tex., 15th Leg., R.S. 182 (1876)
Session:	15th R.S. (1876)
Online version:	View report [21 pages  File size: 1,083 kb]
Charge:	This report should address the charge below.
1.	Investigate all matters related to the affairs of the penitentiary Commissioners appointed by the Governor and report as to what may be necessary to enable the State of Texas to resume control of the penitentiary in case of emergency and report on the practicability of adding to the penitentiary in Huntsville. *

* This represents an abstract of the report contents. Charge text is incomplete or unavailable.

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