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Punishments for Infractions of Rules & Regulations


Solitary confinement was the most  common punishment and was used for everything from cooking in the yard, fighting and bad language.  Less stringent punishment options including chaining a prisoner to the ring set into the floor of the cell, or a ball and chain placed around the prisoner's ankle for such crimes as attempted escape.

Attempting to escape 4 to 22 days solitary
22 to 43 days with ball & chain
Assaulting another convict 2 to 10 days solitary
Becoming intoxicated on bay run 7 days solitary
Changing cells 2 days solitary
Cooking in yard 6 days solitary
Destroying property 3 to 4 days solitary
Disobedience 3 to 10 days solitary
Disobeying dining room rules 2 to 11 days solitary
Disorderly conduct 5 days solitary
Entering cells of women 8 to 10 days solitary
Fighting with fellow inmate 1 to 5 days solitary
Gambling with cards or dice 3 to 10 days solitary
Having opium in possession 17 to 22 days in Dark Cell
Indecency 2 days solitary
Making a knife 1 day solitary
*Not bathing 2 days solitary
*Refusing to Work 4 to 11 days in Dark Cell
*Rioting 6 to 24 months in incorrigible ward
Shirking labor 1 day solitary
Scattering trash around yard 3 days solitary
Smuggling letters out of prison 18 days solitary
*Stealing 3 to 28 days in Dark Cell
Talking after taps 3 days solitary
Talking back to officer 12 days solitary
Using insulting or vulgar language 1 to 8 days solitary
*Writing obscene or threating letters 3 months in incorrigible ward

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