Access to this collection is generously supported by Haynes Foundation funds. Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. A man in a long black overcoat and hat, Frank Carpenter, stands at the entrance of a prison camp as inmates walk back to their cluster of white tents. This photograph appears with the article, “Crowded Jail Forces Prisoners Into Open,” Los Angeles Times, 15 May 1921: II1. Due to overcrowding in the Los Angeles County Jail, a labor camp was opened in the canyons of Malibu where prison labor was used to build roads connecting to the Pacific Coast Highway. The open-air camp was noted for its lack of chains, steel bars, or handcuffs. Text from negative sleeve: Chain Gangs Text from newspaper caption: Coming back to camp for supper Frank Carpenter assistant guard is in the foreground
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Image
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b&w nitrate negative
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uclamss_1429_1551 ark:/21198/zz002dc1ms
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Prison guards--California--Los Angeles Prisoners--California--Los Angeles Convict labor--California--Los Angeles County Carpenter, Frank
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