Missouri State Archives Finding Aid 000

[Pages:42]Missouri State Archives Finding Aid 000.114

DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS STATE DOCUMENTS

Abstract: Published materials of the Missouri Department of Corrections dating from 1879 to the present. Extent: 39 Hollinger & ? Hollinger boxes totaling 15 cubic feet of records Physical Description: Paper records, most in good to excellent condition, some early records are very fragile Location: Missouri State Archives

ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION

Alternative Formats: a few of these records have been digitized. This finding aid indicates when digital records are available.

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Publication Restrictions: Copyright is in the public domain. Items reproduced for publication should carry the credit line: Courtesy of the Missouri State Archives.

Preferred Citation: [Item description], [date]; Missouri Department of Corrections State Documents Collection, Record Group 000.114; Missouri State Archives, Jefferson City.

Processing Information: Processing completed by EW on 09 September 2015.

HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES

Missouri Governor John Miller (1825-1832) was the first to advocate for a penitentiary in Missouri's new capital, Jefferson City. With the passage of the 1829 law regarding the new Permanent Seat of Government, the State assured that revenue from land sales would go both toward a seminary of learning and a penitentiary. On January 16, 1833 the General Assembly approved "An Act for the Erection of a Penitentiary within the State of Missouri." It was to be located in Jefferson City and run by two commissioners who would be elected by the General

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Assembly. In 1835 a contract between James Dunnica as Commissioner of the Penitentiary and J.A. Crump and E. Finley for stonework was approved. The first inmate, Wilson Eidson, was received on March 8, 1836. The Missouri State Penitentiary (MSP) would be the first penitentiary west of the Mississippi River.

Tens of thousands of men and women would pass through the doors of the MSP by the time it closed in 2004. In its time, it saw prisoners from all over the country, including federal prisoners and women. The site grew to 147 acres.

The Department of Corrections as we know it today was not officially formed until 1946. Prior to that, correctional facilities were run by the State Prison Board as well as various charitable boards. Both minors and adults would be under its auspices.

Three so-called training schools for boys and girls were established by various incarnations of the Department in Boonville, Chillicothe, and Tipton, MO.

Later, the MSP became too crowded and now there are many major correctional facilities for adults scattered throughout the state.

Today the Department includes several divisions, including Probation & Parole, Inmate Education, and Planning, Research and Evaluation.

Timeline:

01/16/1833 03/08/1836 03/30/1887

03/30/1887

03/19/1897 06/14/1909

03/17/1913 04/12/1917

"An Act for the Erection of a Penitentiary within the State of Missouri" is approved by the General Assembly. The Penitentiary receives its first inmate. The General Assembly approves "An Act to Provide for the Locating and Erecting a State Reform School for Boys," which would be located in Boonville, MO. The first inmate, Menter Smith, was received on his 15th birthday, January 15, 1889. The General Assembly approves "An Act to Establish an Institution under the Name and Style of the State Industrial Home for Girls," which would be located in Chillicothe, MO. Its first two years of operation (1889-1890) would see only 11 girls. The State Board of Charities and Corrections is established that combines eleemosynary institutions with correctional facilities under one board. The State Industrial Home for Negro Girls is established. Due to difficulty finding a location for the school, it would not open its doors until June 1916 in Tipton, MO. It was under the control of the State Eleemosynary Board for its first year of operation, but was then transferred to the State Prison Board when it was established in 1917. The Board of Pardons and Paroles is established by the General Assembly. "An Act to Create and Establish a State Prison Board" is approved by the General Assembly, consolidating the MSP, the Missouri Training School for Boys, the Industrial Home for Girls, the Industrial Home for Negro Girls, and

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04/22/1927

06/24/1937 05/02/1946 08/11/1951

07/14/1955 08/29/1956 07/23/1965 1975 06/30/1981 06/23/1982 09/15/2004

any future institutions under one body; eleemosynary institutions are no longer part of corrections. The Missouri Intermediate Reformatory is established for men aged 17 to 25 convicted of a felony other than murder or treason. Construction begins in 1929 and the first inmate is received on January 12, 1932. This institution will be later known simply as "Algoa" and is located just outside Jefferson City. The Board of Probation and Parole is established by the General Assembly (no longer called "Pardons" and Paroles). The Department of Corrections is established, replacing the State Prison Board. With it come the Division of Penal Institutions, Educational Institutions, and the Board of Probation and Parole. With SB23, the General Assembly orders the Tipton Training School for Negro Girls to be closed and its inmates to be integrated with the Chillicothe Girls' School. This will not actually happen for five more years, though. The facilities are then supposed to be transferred wholly over to the Department of Corrections. The Department of Corrections is reorganized with HB377. The Tipton Training School for Negro Girls closes and its remaining inmates are transferred to the Chillicothe Training School for Girls. The Moberly Training Center for Men is established, created by the General Assembly with SB73. Whole departments across the state are reorganized, including Corrections. Corrections is now under the Department of Social Services. It will be moved out to its own separate department again in 1981. The Chillicothe Training School for Girls closes. In its place a new women's correctional facility is established. The Boonville Training School for Boys is slated to close, which it does within the next year. Its grounds, as with the girls' school, will be turned into an adult correctional facility. The Missouri State Penitentiary closes and its inmates are transferred to the new Jefferson City Correctional Center.

Historic Listing of Directors: Thomas E. Whitecotton, 1946-1955 James D. Carter, 1955-1965 Fred T. Wilkinson, 1965-1971 William G. Miller, 1972-1973 George M. Camp, 1973-1974 Edward E. Haynes, 1974-1977 Ewing Gourley, 1977 James C. Martin, 1977-1978 Donald Jenkins, 1978-1979 David Blackwell, 1979-1981 Lee Roy Black, 1981-1985 Dick D. Moore, 1985-1993 Dora Schriro, 1993-2001

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Gary Kempker, 2001-2005 Larry Crawford, 2005-2009 George Lombardi, 2009-

ADDITIONAL DESCRIPTIVE INFORMATION

Bibliography

Nesheim, William Charles. A History of the Missouri State Penitentiary 1833-1875. 1971.

Rasmussen, Jamie Pamela. The Missouri State Penitentiary: 170 Years Inside the Walls. 2012.

Schreiber, Mark S. Shanks to Shakers: Reflections of the Missouri State Penitentiary. 2011.

Schreiber, Mark S. Somewhere in Time: A 170 Year History of Missouri Corrections. 2004.

Thompson, George S. Prison Life and Reflections. 1847.

Other Finding Aids

Missouri State Penitentiary, Record Group 213 Missouri Intermediate Reformatory, Record Group 214 State Correctional Pre-Release Center, Record Group 217 Missouri Training School for Boys, Record Group 225 Missouri Training School for Girls, Record Group 226 State Home for Negro Girls, Record Group 227 Extraditions, Record Group 5.07 Pardons, Record Group 5.20 Stays and Warrants of Execution, Record Group 5.19 Commutations of Sentence Record of Commutations of Sentence Record of Conditional Commutations Revocation of Commutations of Sentence Revocation of Conditional Commutations Revocation of Algoa Conditional Commutations Algoa Conditional Commutations Requisitions from Other States Requisitions on Other States Foreign Extradition Papers Warrants of the Governor Writs to Sheriffs

Related Material

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Early annual reports regarding correctional facilities were printed in the General Assembly's House & Senate Journals. These are available online from 1821-1899 here: .

SERIES

The records are broken down into the following series:

Annual & Biennial Reports Budget Requests Miscellaneous Newsletters Press Releases Strategic Plans

Algoa Intermediate Reformatory and Moberly Missouri Training Center for Men Division of Classification and Assignment aka Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation Division of Inmate Education Division of Probation and Parole Missouri State Penitentiary Missouri Vocational Enterprises (MVE) Renz Correctional Center State Board of Charities and Corrections State Board of Training Schools Tipton Pre-Release Center, aka Tipton Correctional Center for Women

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ANNUAL & BIENNIAL REPORTS, 1920-2010

Extent: Incomplete

Arrangement: Chronological

Scope and Content

These department-wide reports include the MSP, the Boonville Training School for Boys, the Chillicothe Training School for Girls, and the Tipton Industrial Home for Negro Girls. Beginning with 1933-1934 the Algoa Intermediate Reformatory is included. For earlier reports, see the series for the MSP and State Board of Charities and Corrections.

Container List

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Contents Report of the Missouri State Prison Board: Biennial Period Ending December 31, 1920 (2 copies)

Location

Report of the Department of Penal Institutions:

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Biennial Period Ending December 31, 1922

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1929-1930 Biennial Report

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1933-1934 Biennial Report

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1935-1936 Biennial Report

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1937-1938 Biennial Report

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1939-1940 Biennial Report

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1941-1942 Biennial Report

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Bound Volume of the 1920-1930 Biennial Reports Bound Volume of the 1931-1936 Biennial Reports

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Report of the Penal Board: Biennial Period Ending December 31, 1944 1945-1946 Biennial Report

Division of Penal Institutions:

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1947-1949 Biennial Report

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1949-1951 Biennial Report

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1951-1953 Biennial Report (2 copies)

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1953-1955 Biennial Report

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Department of Corrections: Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 1947 Annual Report 1955-1957 Biennial Report 1957-1959 Biennial Report 1959-1961 Biennial Report 1961-1963 Biennial Report 1968-1969 Annual Report 1973-1974 Annual Report (2 copies)

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Box Folder

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Contents Division of Corrections (under Department of Social Services): 1974-1975 Annual Report 1976-1978 Biennial Report 1979-1980 Biennial Report (2 copies)

Department of Corrections and Human Resources: 1981-1982 Annual Report (2 copies) 1983-1984 Biennial Report (2 copies) 1986 Annual Report 1987 Annual Report (2 copies)

Department of Corrections: 1988-1989 Annual Report (2 copies) 1990 Annual Report (2 copies) 1990-1991 Annual Report (2 copies) 1992 Annual Report (2 copies) FY 1997 Annual Report (2 copies) FY 1998 Annual Report (2 copies) FYs 1999-2000 Biennial Report (2 copies) 2004 Annual Report (2 copies) 2006 Annual Report (2 copies) 2007 Annual Report (2 copies) 2008 Annual Report (2 copies) 2009 Annual Report (2 copies) 2010 Annual Report (2 copies)

Location

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BUDGET REQUESTS, 2010-2015

Extent: Complete

Arrangement: Chronological

Scope and Content

Requests by the Department of Corrections to the Governor of Missouri and General Assembly. Container List

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Contents FY2010 Budget Request Book 1: Department Summaries, Office of the Director, Division of Human Resources FY2010 Budget Request Book 2: Division of Adult Institutions FY2010 Budget Request Book 3: Division of Offender Rehabilitative Services, Board of Probation and Parole FY2011 Budget Request Book 1: Department Summaries, Office of the Director, Division of Human Resources FY2011 Budget Request Book 2: Division of Adult Institutions FY2011 Budget Request Book 3: Division of Offender Rehabilitative Services, Board of Probation and Parole

FY2012 Budget Request: List of Flexibility Requests, Fund Financial Summaries, Supplemental Requests FY2012 Budget Request Book 1: Department Summaries, Office of the Director, Division of Human Resources FY2012 Budget Request Book 2: Division of Adult Institutions FY2012 Budget Request Book 3: Division of Offender Rehabilitative Services, Board of Probation and Parole FY2013 Budget Request: List of Flexibility Requests, Fund Financial Summaries, Supplemental Requests FY2013 Budget Request Book 1: Department Summaries, Office of the Director, Division of Human Resources FY2013 Budget Request Book 2: Division of Adult Institutions FY2013 Budget Request Book 3: Division of Offender Rehabilitative Services, Board of Probation and Parole

FY2014 Budget Request: List of Flexibility Requests, Fund Financial Summaries, Supplemental Requests FY2014 Budget Request Book 1: Department Summaries, Office of the Director, Division of Human Resources FY2014 Budget Request Book 2: Division of Adult Institutions

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