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    • Youth
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Convict Lease Records

1913 Prisoners Ordered to Central State Prison Hospital Ocala | Florida State Archives1890 Bailey Prison Camp Discharges | Florida State Archives1915 Raiford Prisoner Petition for Chaplain | Florida State Archives1914 Ocala State Prison Farm Prisoner In/Out/Died | Florida State Archives1913 Ocala State Prison prisoner orders and Physician Reports | Florida State Archives1913 Ocala State Prison Physician Reports and Prisoner Grading for Work | Florida State Archives1903 Brevard & St John’s Co Report to Governor regarding prisoners | Florida State Archives1913 Ocala State Prison Physician Reports and Prisoner Grading for Work | Florida State Archives1876 Report of the State Warden | Florida State ArchivesPhoto - Laborers in Phosphate Mine Dunnellon 1890 | Library of Congress1906 Prisoner D.A. McDonald case | Florida State Archives1914 Prisoner Punishment Records- Ocala, Raiford, Tamoka Land Co / Port Orange | Florida State ArchivesPhoto -View of convict laborers working on the Bradford Farm in Florida. Headed, "State asks that 'Convict Farm' be wiped out," the caption states, in part, "The state of North Dakota has formally demanded that the State of Florida wipe out the 'convict farm,' which means practical slavery for the convicts." | Liveauctioneers.com

German Prisoners of War held in FL

During World War II, Florida housed around 10,000 German POW
Free Ebook -Hitler's soldiers in the Sunshine State : German POWs in Florida : Billinger, Robert D. | Internet ArchiveThe German POWs in Florida | Hidden HistoryWith the Wehrmacht in Florida: The German POW Facility at Camp Blanding, 1942-1946 | UCFGerman Prison Camp in Dade City, Florida | USFCamp Leesburg | Lake Sumter State CollegeGerman P.O.W. Cemetery - Camp Blanding Military Reservation, Clay County, FL | usgw archives

Prisoners

1859 - Current
Florida State Prison Register 1859-1959 | Florida MemoryExecution List: 1976 - present | Florida Department of CorrectionsInmate Mortality Reports 2020-Current | Florida Department of Corrections Execution List 1924-1964 | Florida Department of CorrectionsFlorida State Prison register 1877-1900 | FamilySearch1913 Florida Wanted Poster, Escaped Prisoner | Liveauctioneers

outlaws, gangs, & rebels

PERSONAL RECOLLECTIONS OF OREN BENTON "O. B." PADGETT Written by O. B. Padgett in 1976 Padgett's early years, some of his time as Stuart Chief of Police (1920s), his knowledge and final encounter with the John Ashley Gang and his feelings about guns and killing | florida historical society research libraryMa Barker FBI Files - Karpis-Barker Gang | internet archive

Free ebooks, research papers, & long form publications

Free Ebook -Hard labor and hard time : Florida's "Sunshine Prison" and chain gangs : Miller, Vivien M. L | Internet ArchiveFree Ebook -A rogue's paradise : crime and punishment in Antebellum Florida, 1821-1861 by Denham, James M | Internet ArchiveRegulators and outlaws of Florida : Jay, Hamilton | WPA | Internet Archive

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