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[Photograph 2012.201.B0408B.0273]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Warden Alfred Murphy said drugs apparently were being smuggled into the prison by an inmate's wife who was receiving orders through coded messages in letters from her husband."
Date: March 24, 1980
Creator: Tullous, Don
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0374.0364]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Bernard C. Long thought he was just being a nice guy in 1969 when agreed to let the Army hold up his pay for a few weeks because of a temporary shortage of pay vouchers at his military post."
Date: November 14, 1972
Creator: Tullous, Don
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0376.0049]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Because of trusty status, they are no longer pasty-faced, yet they still live within the lengthening shadows of prison confinement as "forgotten men."
Date: December 30, 1971
Creator: Tullous, Don
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1207.0056]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Top state boy of this year selected by the Boys Club of America is Burton Steidly, 16, of McAlester, who received his plaque Thursday from Gov. David Boren in a ceremony at the state capitol."
Date: March 11, 1976
Creator: Tullous, Don
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0408B.0274]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Alfred I. Murphy, new warden for the state penitentiary at McAlester, met with high state officials today before taking over at the prison."
Date: March 24, 1980
Creator: Tullous, Don
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0395.0148]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Ardell Mesles' job of gardening is better than average for inmates, but still not equal to the freedom they miss. (In 1972, Mesles was oldest inmate in Oklahoma corrections system, at age 82, and the Pardon and Parole Board denied clemency that year, as he served a life sentence for a 1917 murder)"
Date: December 30, 1971
Creator: Tullous, Don
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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