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• Summers County Jail, 1930 Index of Prisoners

  West Virginia.

• Sumter County Chain Gang Lines 24-49, 1930 Index of Prisoners

  South Carolina.

• Texas Prison Museum

  Huntsville, Texas.

• The Montana Sedition Project

  Montana's state Sedition Law was similar to that of the United States law of 1917. The Montana Sedition Project acquired pardons for those imprisoned under the Sedition Law in 2006. Included in this site is the list of Montana's Sedition Prisoners along with their scanned prison in-take forms.

• The U.S. National Archives & Records Administration - Access to Archival Databases (AAD)

  • NARA - AAD - List of Series - Genealogy/ Personal History: Prisoners of War

    • Records of American Prisoners of War During the Korean War, created, 1950 - 1953, documenting the period 1950 - 1953 - Record Group 319

    • Records of Repatriated Korean War Prisoners of War, created, 1978 - 1980, documenting the period 7/5/1950 - 10/6/1954 - Record Group 15

    • Records of World War II Prisoners of War, created, 1942 - 1947, documenting the period 12/7/1941 - 11/19/1946 - Record Group 389

    • Records on Military Personnel Who Died, Were Missing in Action or Prisoners of War as a Result of the Vietnam Conflict, created, 1/20/1967 - 12/1998, documenting the period 6/8/1956 - 1/21/1998 - Reco

    • World War II Prisoners of the Japanese Data File, created, 4/2005 - 2/2006, documenting the period ca. 1941 - ca. 1945 - Collection ADBC

• The U.S. National Archives & Records Administration - Guide to Federal Records - Records of the Bureau of Prisons

• Union County Jail, 1900 Index of Prisoners

  New Jersey.

• US Criminal Databases

• US-CONVICT-ANCESTORS Mailing List

  For the discussion and sharing of information regarding the resources available for researching ancestors in the United States who were convicted of a crime. Archives: browse or search.

• Vermont State Prison, 1930 Index of Prisoners

  Searchable database of prisoners in Vermont State Prison for the year 1930.

• Virginia State Road Camp Lines 1 - 50, 1930 Index of Prisoners

• Walla Walla Penitentiary

  Searchable online database from the Washington Secretary of State. Contains extracts from the Record of Penitentiary Convicts of more than 3,000 inmates housed in the Walla Walla State Penitentiary from 1887-1904.

• Washington County Chain Gang, 1930 Index of Prisoners

  Georgia.

• West Virginia Penitentiary, 1930 Index of Female Prisoners

• West Virginia Penitentiary, 1930 Index of Prisoners, Surnames A - C

• West Virginia Penitentiary, 1930 Index of Prisoners, Surnames D - H

• West Virginia Penitentiary, 1930 Index of Prisoners, Surnames I - M

• West Virginia Penitentiary, 1930 Index of Prisoners, Surnames N - S

• West Virginia Penitentiary, 1930 Index of Prisoners, Surnames T - Z

• Wethersfield Prison Records

  Connecticut. Database from the Connecticut State Library includes prisoner's name, aliases, residence, crime committed, victim (if known), sentence, court and date of issue.