14560 Olson, Marvin Bruce

This collection documents the administration, operations, and inmate management of the Idaho State Penitentiary. Materials date primarily from the late nineteenth through the twentieth century and include inmate record files, registers, correspondence, reports, publications, photographs, and administrative forms. The records provide evidence of inmate intake, confinement, parole, and discharge, as well as the daily activities and oversight of the prison system. Also represented are legal and financial records such as vouchers, requisitions, pardons, remissions, and communications with the Board of Correction and other state agencies. Supplementary materials include inmate rosters, rule books, news clippings, pamphlets, and artifacts documenting the institutional culture and reforms leading up to the 1973 closure of the Old Idaho State Penitentiary and the subsequent establishment of the Idaho State Correctional Institution.