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San Quentin: The Evolution of a State Prison : An Historical Narrative of the Ten Years from 1851-1861 (West Coast Studies, No 6)
The coming of statehood to California in 1850 forced the authorities to face one immediately pressing issue: what to do with the many convicts who were pouring forth from the local county courtrooms in the wake of the great Gold Rush of 1848-49. Lawlessness was everywhere rampant, and something had to be done immediately. The answer was found in establishing the first stat...more
Hardcover, 248 pages
Published
July 28th 1997
by Borgo Press
(first published July 1997)
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