Abstract
American penitentiaries developed in two distinct phases, and southern states participated in both. Virginia, Kentucky, Maryland, and Georgia built prisons before 1820, and between 1829 and 1842 new or newly reorganized institutions were established in Maryland, Tennessee, Georgia, Louisiana, Missouri, Mississippi, and Alabama. Only the Carolinas and Florida resisted the penitentiary before the Civil War.
Document Type
Article
ISBN
0-8078-1823-2
Publication Date
1989
Publisher Statement
Copyright © 1989 University of North Carolina Press. This entry first appeared in the Encyclopedia of Southern Culture (1989), 1494-1496.
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Recommended Citation
Ayers, Edward L. "Prisons." Encyclopedia of Southern Cultures, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1989.