May 23, 1857 – After a Minn. Legislature committee recommended that the warden of Stillwater Prison should not be held responsible for prisoners if the counties were lax in paying for their keep, an act to this effect was approved on this date. Warden Delano immediately freed prisoners from Winona, Nicollet, and Houston counties because payments were not forthcoming from the county commissioners.
http://collections.mnhs.org/MNHistoryMagazine/articles/37/v37i04p137-151.pdf
http://collections.mnhs.org/MNHistoryMagazine/articles/37/v37i04p137-151.pdf
Old Stillwater Prison
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