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History And Current Dynamic Of Sandstone

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Sandstone Federal Correctional Institution in Sandstone, Minnesota has housed many an inmate including the actor Tim Allen (Rodriguez) and it ranks 40 of 50 on arrestrecords.com’s 50 most comfortable prions in the world. A well-maintained lawns leads to well-kept cells, where nonviolent offenders are kept occupied with leather making and stained glass creation. Some inmates may consider this a little boring, but anything is better than being assaulted. (Records) This paper will discuss the history and current dynamic of Sandstone, inmate demographics, services available to them, staff demographics and their style of this staff. In 1931, the United States was in the middle of the Great Depression. After the black market crash the …show more content…

This report form 1929, focused on the issue of overcrowding in the federal prison system and how federal judges in Minnesota indicated a need of more federal prison farms in the northern part of the state. Barstow reasoned that a prison farm could bring income and jobs to the town to make up for the economic fall of the quarry and railroad. The town had a piece of land that had not been cleared across the Kettle Rover to the east of the Sandstone that Barstow thought would be perfect. Barstow recruited the help of Senator Adolph Larson, Dr. Homer p. Dredge, and businessman John F. Hawley. These four men, later known as “the prison farm four, called a town meeting and formed a committee with a goal of obtaining a federal farm for Sandstone. The U.S. department of Justice had already announced intent to build a new prison farm in Minnesota, but Sandstone was not the only town bidding for a new institution. Sandstone, however, had the unique advantage of being positioned half way in the middle of the Twin Cities and Duluth, these cities delivered most of the Minnesota’s prison population. That June, the superintendent of prisons visited the prosed site and recommended Sandstone as the location for the new prison far. On November 10, 1931, Sandstone received the news that their bid of $5 per acre, for 2, 885 acres. (Troolin, Pine County History: The Federal Correctional Insitution at Sandstone: A History

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