Oklahoma "streamlined" Hoosegow

[Janet Harrington]

This is a black and white picture that I found on eBay several years ago when I was trying to collect pictures of different kinds of jails throughout the nation.  Here are a couple of newspaper links that will take you to The Pittsburgh Press and the Berkley Daily Gazette newspapers.  I thought the little invention was kind of neat.  This was published in the media in August, 1936.

http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=K5coAAAAIBAJ&sjid=IgYGAAAAIBAJ&pg=925%2C3490587

http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=1SEbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=_EsEAAAAIBAJ&pg=4124%2C5530938

[Janet Harrington]

Oh, my.  That turned out really well.  Hope you enjoy.

[sixdogsmom]

Maybe 25 years ago, I visited a museum in Medicine Lodge that displayed a large outdoor cast iron cage, that had been used as a jail in Oklahoma. Sorry, I do not remember where in Ok. just that it seemed pretty extreme to me, it was about 103 degrees that day. I could not imagine anybody surviving in a contraption like that.