Fayetteville, July 4—“It is our unanimous opinion that a deplorable condition existed at the Rocky Mount Camp, with no extenuating circumstances, no redeeming features, no justification, rights or reasons for such brutal, inhuman physical treatment as has been accorded prisoners in this camp,” says the report of the Nash county grand jury which investigated the conditions at the camp under instructions of Judge N.A. Sinclair.
The report says further that “added to the inhuman treatment was a most cowardly form of mental and moral torture by threats of physical punishment, unless willing to perjure themselves on every occasion necessary.”
Unlawful liquor in quantities limited only by the desire of those in charge, was on hand at the camp at all times, according to the report.
It was at this camp that Joe Armstrong, negro prisoner, was beaten to death by two guards, who subsequently were tried and convicted and sent to the penitentiary for 30 years.
From page 7 of The Concord Daily Tribune, July 6, 1925
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