Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 July 1894 — Will Have a Penal Farm. [ARTICLE]

Will Have a Penal Farm.

The State of Mississippi is proposing to discontinue the penitentiary lease system and to establish a farm on which Its convicts will be employed. It is proposed to purchase a farm qf not less than 5,000 acres. Texas has such a farm, which has prored profitable.