- Collection:
- Atlanta Journal-Constitution Photographs
- Title:
- State Director of Corrections Jack Forrester demonstrates how inmates broke their own legs at Buford Prison, 1956
- Creator:
- Atlanta Journal-Constitution
- Contributor to Resource:
- Patterson, Ken (Photographer)
- Date of Original:
- 1956-07
- Subject:
- Prisons
Prison discipline
Convict labor
Quarries and quarrying
Correctional personnel - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Gwinnett County, 33.96173, -84.02363
United States, Georgia, Gwinnett County, Buford, 34.12066, -84.00435 - Medium:
- black-and-white negatives
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jp2
- Description:
- Printed on negative envelope: "Buford Prison. Rock Quarries. July 1956. Story on prisoners' broken legs. Prison. Convicts. 23967" Caption: "Forrester demonstrates how prisoners broke legs at Buford. State Director of Corrections hurried to rock quarry pirson following 36 self-mutilations. Staff Photo Ken Patterson."
- Metadata URL:
- http://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ajc/id/13019
- IIIF manifest:
- https://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/iiif/2/ajc:13019/manifest.json
- Additional Rights Information:
- Copyright to items in this collection is owned by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Items may be used for scholarship, educational, and personal use. Additional uses will require permission of the rights holder.
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: AJCN003-098a, Atlanta Journal-Constitution Photographic Archives. Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University Library.
- Original Collection:
- Atlanta Journal-Constitution Photographic Archive;
Photographic Collections; - Holding Institution:
- Georgia State University. Special Collections
- Rights:
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