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  1. The Torture of Prisoners at Auburn
    date May 8, 1839map INDIAN LANDS, Alabamatags Crime/Violence, Government, Law

    Imprisonment at Auburn in Lee County, Alabama was literally torturous in 1839. On May 8, 1839, the Mobile Commercial Register published that a committee was investigating reports of certain cruelties towards prisoners. Upon surveying the prison, the committee confirmed that the prison keepers did in fact torture and whip the prisoners, so much that the doctors frequently had to visit to treat their...