
Arrested for selling liquor for the 4th time

She could have gotten life - but she was acquitted.
A suffragette in prison

Another suffragette

Sent to Occoquan prison for 60 days
Capote's "In Cold Blood" was based on these men

An anarchist

She was sent to jail for inducing men to not register for the draft in WW 1
Charles Buffano
He escaped from jail in 1935, was returned and released in 1941. His family is still looking for him!
Edward McCarthy

A pickpocket, he was also known as Hair Lip Kelly.
Before DNA, law agencies used "death masks" for ID

Isma Martin

Poor lady was really beaten!
Washington DC conspiracy

Click on the photo to read about this 1938 scandal.
Georgia prisoners

Working on a roadbed.
William Glyndon, cleared of murder after 31 years

In 1915 Sing Sing, prisoners learned knitting


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