Prisoners keep busy at Sheriff's Castaic honor farm
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Valley Times Photo Collection;
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This project was supported in whole or in part by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation and Photo Friends
Photograph was edited for publication purposes. The Wayside Honor Rancho was renamed The Peter J. Pitchess Detention Center in 1983. Photograph caption dated September 14, 1959 reads "Prisoners turn farmhands. Sheriff's Lt. William R. Howard, left, checks work of prisoner in cabbage patch of 2,800-acre Los Angeles County Sheriff's Wayside Honor Rancho in Castaic. Inmates produce $300,000 worth of farm products annually in prison without walls. Oil wells at back are operated by Texaco, which pays county $1,000,000 annually for oil rights on ranch." The prison is at 29310 The Old Road in Castaic. See images 00154656 through 00154664 for all photos in this series.
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