RARE Orig 1930s order MCI Massachusetts Prison Colony Thompson Gun 3 Page Training Doc

Product Name: RARE Orig 1930s order MCI Massachusetts Prison Colony Thompson Gun 3 Page Training Doc
INVREF#CL4-28 RARE Original 1930s MCI Massachusetts Prison Colony Thompson Gun 3 Page order Training Doc. Rare insight to the measures taken in the mob era of the 1930's. The stapled 3 page document was purchased and thought to be from one of the earliest if not the 1st recruiting class for the state prison colony of Massachusetts. Great historic content. 1927 the Norfolk Prison Colony, a "model prison community" conceived by sociologist  and penologist Howard Belding Gill (Harvard1913, M.B.A. 1914), who was appointed its first superintendent in 1931. Gill was dismissed in 1934 after an escape by four inmates, and replaced by his deputy Maurice N. Winslow, who served as superintendent from 1934 to 1950. The name of the prison was changed to the Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Norfolk in the mid-1950s. Famous civil rights activist Malcolm X was incarcerated at Norfolk, and he attended the prison school, where he furthered his education far beyond the eighth grade.