Research

Scope and Content Note

These are carbon typescript orders from the superintendent assigning new or returned inmates to their appropriate religious division. There are two subseries.

Subseries 1 - Protestant Chaplain's Religious Assignment Records (1900-1912). These assignments are glued into a volume and list: date of order; inmate name; disciplinary division to which assigned; if Catholic, Protestant, or Jewish; and frequent annotations regarding Protestant inmates, usually indicating date received and inmate number. The volume also contains some rough handwritten lists of paroled Protestant inmates (1908-1911) providing: inmate name; inmate number; date left institution; and age.

Subseries 2 - Catholic Chaplain's Religious Assignment Records (1899-1906). These are unbound assignments which, with a few exceptions, duplicate assignments in the Protestant Chaplain's volume for the same date span. However, annotations on these records concern Catholic inmates and usually consist of a consecutive order number assigned by the Catholic Chaplain, a note if the inmate had returned to the institution, or the inmate number.