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Alabama prisoners in both the county jails and state penitentiaries have been required to work at farming and cotton plantations since the 1840s. By the 1878, convict labor rented from the state was used most commonly in the coal mining industry, often as strike breakers. [ 6 ]
Daniel Lee Siebert – Alabama Institutional Serial #00Z475 [29] – Died from cancer while in custody in 2008, he was known for challenging protocol. [30] Thomas Warren Whisenhant – Serial killer who was convicted of murder in 1977 – Executed on May 27, 2010; at the time of his execution he was Alabama's longest serving death row inmate. [31]
County Location Opened Security class Capacity Notes Bibb Correctional Facility: ... North Alabama Work Release Center) Elba Work Release Center; Farquhar Cattle Ranch;
Formerly called "scrub pine", it has become a principal provider of timber and pulpwood in the Southeast, and a popular choice for reforestation and mine reclamation sites. Uses: timber; landscaping, posts, pulpwood, terpenes, veneers, winter holiday decorations [114] [115] IL IN OH, the Mid-Atlantic and the Southeast
Judd, Richard W. "Lumbering and the farming frontier in Aroostook County, Maine, 1840–1880." Journal of Forest History 28.2 (1984): 56–67. online; Larson, A. M. History of the White Pine Industry in Minnesota (1949) Raney, William F. "Pine Lumbering in Wisconsin," Wisconsin Magazine of History 19#1 (1935), pp. 71–90 JSTOR 4631056
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The previous Wetumpka prison's usage decreased. Beginning in 1945 the State of Alabama began selling small parcels of the older prison land. [3] In 1973 the prison and site were listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Several buildings survived to the last decades of the 20th century, but have since been demolished. [1]