Access to this collection is generously supported by Haynes Foundation funds. Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. A row of inmates stand at the entrance of a prison labor camp. Frank Carpenter, assistant prison guard, stands at the right in a long black overcoat. A cluster of white tents are seen behind the men. 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. A similar photograph taken on the same occasion appears with the article, “Crowded Jail Forces Prisoners Into Open,” Los Angeles Times, 15 May 1921: II1. Text from negative sleeve: Chain Gangs
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b&w nitrate negative
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uclamss_1429_1553 ark:/21198/zz002dc1pt
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Canyons--California--Malibu Convict labor--California--Malibu Prison guards--California--Malibu Prisoners--California--Malibu Carpenter, Frank
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