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| Date: | 09 01 1933 |
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| Description: | Chester Briggs, aka Chester Hawk or John Stanovich, was found by police in a boxcar at the Milwaukee Road switching tracks. He is sitting in a chair at the... |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Elevated exterior view of buildings and grounds of the Wisconsin State Prison. Prisoners are line up in formation. |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | Two police officers holding rifles escort two prisoners into a paddywagon. Lining the road is a long, perspective view of an outdoor prison. Red text impri... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | A man standing in the cook house doorway at a convict camp comprised of several tents and a iron cage on wheels. |
| Date: | 08 1957 |
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| Description: | An Algerian traitor who claimed to have killed many Algerian women and children is sitting handcuffed by a rock wall, awaiting trial by the National Libera... |
| Date: | 05 1962 |
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| Description: | Vietnamese Rangers and U.S. Army Ranger advisor ford a rice paddy with a captured prisoner suspected of being Viet Cong in the vicinity of Bac Lien, Vietna... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Bert Lytell, his face illuminated by a small spotlight, poses in a prisoner's striped uniform in a publicity still for the silent film "Alias Jimmy Valenti... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Wallace Reid, wearing jodhpurs and a work shirt, stands in a sherrif's office with a ball and chain attached to his ankle. Behind him is a rolltop desk and... |
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| Description: | Actor Neville Brand, on the left, and another actor in the center with a knife in his belt, talk with director Don Siegel, far right. They are on the set o... |
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| Description: | A fight scene from the film "Riot in Cell Block 11." |
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| Description: | Prisoners are seen walking past cells on the set of the film "Riot in Cell Block 11." There are two lines of men — one on the first floor and another on th... |
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| Description: | Neville Brand and Leo Gordon are seen hiding underneath some metal stairs on the set of the film "Riot in Cell Block 11." |
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| Description: | Prisoners are seen fighting on the set of the film "Riot in Cell Block 11." They are fighting on the floor and on two metal staircases. |
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| Description: | Prisoners are seen fighting on the set of the film "Riot in Cell Block 11." They are fighting on the floor and on two metal staircases. |
| Date: | 1961 |
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| Description: | Two Viet Cong prisoners seen through a window covered in barbed wire in a structure built of bamboo and grass. |
| Date: | 1961 |
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| Description: | Vietnamese soldier interrogating a prisoner. The prisoner is describing a route of safe passage through the jungle and informing the 1st Vietnamese Marine ... |
| Date: | 1962 |
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| Description: | South Vietnamese soldier uses a handgun to threaten a Viet Cong prisoner who is laying on the ground among foliage. Other men watch in the background. |
| Date: | 1962 |
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| Description: | Group of Viet Cong held prisoner by South Vietnamese soldiers. The group is seated on the ground among foliage with mock rifles in the foreground. Soldiers... |
| Date: | 1961 |
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| Description: | Two Viet Cong prisoners carry the body of a recently killed South Vietnamese paratrooper, wrapped in canvas and tied to a pole. The prisoners are supervise... |
| Date: | 1962 |
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| Description: | A man caught with Communist propaganda is taken, with his arms bound, to a waiting helicopter. The soldiers who captured him walk behind with weapons raise... |
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