Otherwise, the maximum punishment for a first offender was fifteen years. The first offender officiated at his wedding. He was a 44-year-old first offender. A misdemeanour for the first offender and a class D felony for subsequent failures. In 1963, before racial desegregation occurred, the facility housed first offender African Americans. Sam Thomas was the first offender buried in the new cemetery on June 10, 1927.