Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 March 1896 — A Factory for Convicts. [ARTICLE]

A Factory for Convicts.

The Governor and the State Convict Board Of Alabama have recently closed contracts for the construction, and equipment of a large cotton factory on the penitentiary farm. The purpose is to operate this factory with the female and youthful male convicts, seventeenths of whom are negroes. The building will be erected by convicts, and the only cost to the State will be the machinery