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Prisoners receiving instructions outside the jail in Phenix City, Alabama.

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@ Alabama Department of Archives and History, 624 Washington Avenue, Montgomery, Alabama 36130

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Frame from a newsreel film ("Prisoners Go Home Nights"): "Minor offenders report at the Jail every morning to work out their sentences but return to their families at the end of the day. Lunches are brought from home and the community saves the expense of feeding the men."
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Created Date:
1936
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Alabama Photographs and Pictures Collection

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Alabama Department of Archives and History, 624 Washington Avenue, Montgomery, Alabama 36130

Keywords

  1. African Americans
  2. Capture & Imprisonment
  3. Crime & Justice
  4. Phenix City (Ala.)
  5. Prisoners
  6. Russell County (Ala.)

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