Central Prison: a history of North Carolina's State Penitentiary

The Penitentiary Argument -- The Civil War Era and the Penitentiary -- Construction Begins -- Politicizing the Penitentiary -- Convict Leasing -- Completing the Penitentiary -- The First Two Decades -- The Explosive Powers of Fusion -- The Era of High Hopes -- "An Almost Perfect Law" -- Ge...

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