Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Access to this collection is generously supported by Haynes Foundation funds. 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 group of incarcerated people pose for a photograph at the open-air labor camp in the Malibu canyons. One man in the front holds a goat while the man beside him holds a dog. Two tents can be seen in the background. Different photographs taken on the same occasion appear 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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