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Prisons -- Arkansas

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Arkansas State Penitentiary Records

 Collection
Identifier: MC 495
Scope and Content Note Materials consist primarily of written records, including correspondence, reports, bank statements and deposit slips, and pamphlets. The collection also contains three photographs and a broadside. Materials pertain to the daily workings of the penitentiary system, including prisoner records; financial records; and agricultural materials, especially dairy and cotton farming records. Additional agricultural records may be found in the files of the penitentiary's business manager,...
Dates: 1910-2013

John Lewis Ferguson Historical Sketch

 Collection
Identifier: MS F38
Scope and Content Note

Photocopy of five-page unpublished article, "A History of the Arkansas Penitentiary," written about 1966 by Arkansas State Historian Ferguson

Dates: circa 1966

Morriss M. Henry Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MC 542
Scope and Content Note

This collection contains correspondence, speeches, legislative papers, press releases, bills, reference material, photographs, and clippings from Henry's political career.

Dates: 1970-1985