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[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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