Fear, Force, and Leather - The Texas Prison System's First Hundred Years, 1848-1948
Table of Contents
Rough Beginnings (1848-1861)
- State Penitentiary Commissioners to Governor George T. Wood, July 20, 1848
- Plan for the Texas Penitentiary, August 15, 1848
- Abner Cook to the Directors of the Penitentiary, September 30, 1849
- Directors of the State Penitentiary to Governor Peter H. Bell, November 11, 1851
- Thomas Carothers to the Directors of the State Penitentiary, undated
- List of Convicts in the Penitentiary, September 1, 1859–August 31,1861 (second page)
The Civil War and the Collapse of Civil Authority 1861-1871
- Major General Thomas C. Hindman to Governor Francis R. Lubbock, August 6, 1862
- Henry E. Perkins to the Texas Legislature, February 13, 1863
- John S. Besser on his confrontation with Texas State Troops, December 8, 1863
- Thaddeus C. Bell to Morgan C. Hamilton, June 10, 1867
- Samuel R. Peacock to Thaddeus McRae, December 9, 1867
- Charles Kirsch to General [Benjamin?] Butler, April 4, 1869
The Lease Era (1871-1883)
- Testimony of Fred Stone, April 15, 1875
- J.K.P. Campbell, Present conditions and facts relating to returned convicts, 1875
- J.K.P. Campbell, Monthly Report, September 1875
- Statements on the death of Frank Furlow, January 26, 1877
- D.M. Short to Governor Oran M. Roberts, July 19, 1879
- Thomas J. Goree, Circular to Sergeants in charge of convict camps, April 2, 1880
- List of convicts under seventeen years of age, August 15, 1881
Convict Leasing and State Account Farming (1883-1909)
- John Dickinson to Haywood Brahan, January 29, 1886
- Time Made by Convicts Nights and Sundays, December 31, 1889
- Excerpt from the Report of Superintendent L.A. Whatley, November 1, 1896
- Minutes of the Regular Meeting of the Penitentiary Board, November 12, 1903
Scandal and Reform(1909-1911)
- Minutes of the Special Session of the Penitentiary Board, November 30, 1909
The Perpetual Inquiry (1911-1927)
- Notification of Discharge of Guard, March 12, 1917
- Excerpt from Escape Analysis, May and June 1928
- Henry Helms, Convict Biography, September 6, 1929
- Committee on Prisons and Prison Labor on proposed Texas penal colony, 1931
Reform & Retrenchment (1927-1947)
- Excerpt, Report of the Texas Prison Centralization Commission, 1929
- Poetry Corner, The Echo, October 1933
- Minutes of the Texas Prison Board, July 24, 1934
- Committee Report on Investigation of Penitentiary, 1947