PRISONERS' RELIEF SOCIETY
509 E STREET, NORTHWEST
WASHINGTON, D.C.

April 9, 1919.

Honorable Thomas W. Bickett,
Governor of North Carolina,
Raleigh, N.C.

Dear Governor Bickett:-

We have been for a long time receiving complaints of the inhuman treatment of convicts in your state. We have lately received numerous letters telling us of the brutality in the camps under the command of Captain C. J. Rhem. One of the letters states that a certain colored prisoner had been sugjected to inhuman tortures by the Doctor in charge of the Camp.

Please let us know immediately if you will look into this matter, as we feel that you are the authority that should be called upon first, and our executive committee has deemed it of sufficient seriousness to bring it to the attention of the Federal Government, unless immediate steps are taken by the state authorities to have the inhuman practices stopped.

Yours very truly,

PRISONERS’ RELIEF SOCIETY.
E. E. Dudding

<Enclosed find copy of one letter>

<Enclosure: 1919, April 7. Sears to Dudding.>