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Benton Work Release Center

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Arkansas State Penitentiary

Wall with closed gates and castle like corner tower

Arkansas State Penitentiary

Multistory buildings with single-story row houses in the foreground

Arkansas State Penitentiary

Multistory brick prison buildings with chimneys

Arkansas State Penitentiary

White man talking to white man sitting at desk

Two white men sitting in stadium booth and talking with white men standing around them

white men in suits sitting at table with white man speaking at lectern in the middle

Single-story building with small barred window and metal door

Beebe: City Jail

African-American woman standing with two white men and suits handing awards to white policeman in uniform

Blue Knight Award

Charles Jones Execution Article

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Clarence Schumann

Clarence Schumann Execution Article

White woman holding plaque, standing between two white men in suits and ties

Commissary Token

Two story house with covered porch

Two-brick building with awning

Corning: Clay County Jail

Group of African-American women in dresses and aprons outside single-story building

Women Prisoners

White man with mustache in suit and tie

Evett Dumas Nix

White policeman in uniform with wide brimmed hat standing at jail cell door

White soldier with gun escorting group of young African-American men down dirt road

Elaine Massacre Prisoners

oval-framed portrait of a white man with dark hair and a long beard wearing a suit

Engraved monuments with bench and brick wall on concrete platform with star shield in its center

Faulkner County Sheriff Monument

Distant view of single and multistory buildings inside fences with parking lot and water tower

Federal Correctional Institution

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Garland County Courthouse

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Garland County Courthouse

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Greenwood: Jail

Small brick building with two doors and rusted metal roof

Small red brick building with two doors and rusted metal roof

Harry Poe Execution Article

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Three white men in field by sedans trunk open changing FBI uniform near small airplane

Asa Hutchinson at CSA Arrest

Young white man in military uniform standing with brick building and tree behind him

James Alexander Cary

Jim Davis Article

White man in suit and tie

Judge Calvin Cotham

Old white man wearing a hat in a suit using a shovel

Lee Simms Article

Concrete building with three flags, a bell and a sign

Mississippi County Law Enforcement Center

Ruins of two-story concrete building with corner entrance and graffiti

Phillips County Penal Farm Historic District

square concrete water tower in field

Phillips County Penal Farm Water Tower

low brick building with bars on its windows on dirt road

Phillips County Penal Farm Cells

Cell door and bars inside ruins of concrete cell block building

Phillips County Penal Farm Cell Block

White man in suit standing in room full of hospital beds

Prison Hospital

Multistory building with corner tower and single-story extension

Prison Hospital

Multistory building with mansard roof and arched windows with bars on them

Pulaski County Jail

African-American man in suit and tie standing with white men in suits and ties and white woman in dress

Tommy Robinson Roast

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portrait photo in oval frame of White man with beard in black suit

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