An act of the legislature providing for the location and erection of a State prison for Wisconsin was approved; the site later determined upon was Waupun, Dodge county.

The evidence

• “By an act of the legislature approved March 14, 1851, the location and erection of a Stata prison for Wisconsin was provided 'for — the point afterward determined upon as a suitable place for its establishment being Waupun, Dodge county. By a subsequent act, the prison was declared to be the general penitentiary and prison of the State for the reformation as well as for the punishment of offenders, in which were to be confined, employed at hard labor, and governed as provided for by the legislature, all offenders who might be committed and sentenced according to law, to the punishment of solitary imprisonment, or imprisonment therein at hard labor.”

  1879-history-of-rock-county/02-wisconsin-as-a-state.md, PDF p. 55

  Butterfield, C. W., et al. The History of Rock County, Wisconsin: its early settlement, growth, development, resources, etc. Chicago: Western Historical Company, 1879. Cornell University Library via the Internet Archive, archive.org/details/cu31924028871585.

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