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Wave of the Future.jpe
Cartoonist Jon Kennedy depicts a hair salon inside the Cummins Unit, providing inmates with stylish new haircuts. Prisoners show off their new 'dos.

Women at the Cummins Women's Prison.jpe
Front: "Colored Women's Prison Cummins Ark. 1949"

River Baptism at Cummins Unit.jpe
Cummins Unit prisoners are baptized in the Arkansas River. Reverend was an inmate himself.

Prisoner with Children on Horseback at Cummins Unit.jpe
Prisoner and children riding on horseback at the Cummins Unit.

Lucius Jewell Acklin and Sons at Cummins Unit.jpe
Warden Lucius Acklin poses with his sons Jay and Eugene at the Cummins Unit Camp No. 3.

Prisoners with Warden's Sons at Cummins Unit.jpe
Prisoner Charlie Cotner poses with Cummins Unit Warden Lucius Acklin's sons, Jay and Eugene.

Benjamin Laney.jpg
Benjamin Laney, Jr., breaks ground on the Cummins Prison Farm for a new building in 1948.
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