Territorial Penitentiary Wardens' administrative records, 1855-1894.

These records cover the administrations of Wardens Daniel Carn, Alexander McRae, J.A. Little, Albert P. Rockwood, and Frederick Kesler, and document the general administration of the penitentiary during Utah's territorial period. Included are prison record books which contain descriptions of prisoners, the findings and sentences of courts, a record of their confinement and a summary of their crimes. Journals and other financial records show the purchase of supplies and the proceeds realized from the labor of prisoners. Several reports and other documents contain good historical data about the penitentiary or record information about conditions there. These include a draft history written by Warden Rockwood in 1877, a questionnaire aboutprison conditions, and several reports written by Warden Kessler to the legislative assembly in the 1880s and 1890s. Other documents include warrants of confinement and the orders of release for individual prisoners, general correspondence, and some documents from a Justice of the Peace court about some specific cases.