Research

Scope and Content Note

These are reports of standing and special committees appointed by the Board of Managers.

The committees and their responsibilities included: Indenturing Committee - concerned with inmate indenturing procedure; Insurance Committee - prepared reports on insurance contracts for facilities; Theatre Committee - concerned with revenues collected from municipal theater license fees; School Committee - hired and determined compensation for teachers and other personnel; Classification Committee - concerned with policies for segregation of inmates according to behavior; and Special Committees - such as a committee to recommend purchase of fire apparatus and a Building Committee concerned with improved facilities. The volumes also contain reports of three special committees established to influence pending legislation, as follows: 1868 - to support an augmented appropriation to replace burned workshops; 1882 - to oppose diversifying theater license revenues to an actors' fund; and 1883 - to oppose prohibition of contract labor and visitation rights for Catholic priests.